Taken: Tracey’s story

Life Changing

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Tracey knew something was wrong the moment she got to the house. The place was empty, the children were gone and so was her husband Taz. Their marriage had broken down and they were going through divorce proceedings. Then she got a text message from him: ‘Gary and Lisa say goodbye forever.’ They’d been taken to Pakistan. Tracey enlisted the police, the Foreign Office and Interpol but in the absence of an agreement between Pakistan and England about parental child abduction cases — they were powerless. Tracey was advised not to travel to Pakistan and she had no idea where to start looking for them anyway. Dr Sian Williams hears what Tracey went through in the decade it took for her to find her children, and the complicated aftermath. In the next episode Sian talks to Lisa, Tracey’s daughter, to hear the story from her point of view.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history
0:05.5	join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet
0:11.2	Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch.
0:15.3	We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period,
0:19.8	there's people can't get on the housing ladder.
0:21.5	This sounds familiar. And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement. I love the clothes. I love
0:26.5	the vibe. Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously and then laughs at it. You're dead
0:30.8	to me. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts.
0:43.7	Hello and welcome to the series that hears from people whose lives have been transformed in a moment.
0:48.4	A road taken or not. A secret revealed or left hidden.
0:53.4	And today, a decision made which altered the paths of three people forever.
0:55.7	When something happens to a family,
1:02.8	it touches all within it, but the experience of it will be a very individual one. Today, I'm with a mum who was suddenly separated from her two young children, not just for a day, a week, or a year,
1:10.2	but for more than a decade.
1:13.1	Her name is Tracy Martin and she's here.
1:15.6	Hi, Tracy.
1:16.4	Hi.
1:16.8	How are you?
1:17.5	I'm good. Thank you.
1:18.4	Good. Lovely to see you.
1:20.1	Take us back to life before that moment nearly 23 years ago when you were separated from your son and daughter Gary and
1:28.7	Lisa. What were they like? They were very happy kids. Gary was a cheeky little monkey.
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