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Radio 4,06 Feb 2013,15 mins

SeriesSeries 3

Adoption

The Call

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Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have made and received life-changing phone calls. Today he meets John Askey, the Northamptonshire man who received a phone calls from a sister he didn't know existed. For Rita Holford of Stoke-on-Trent, speaking to John was the end of a long search to find her lost siblings. John and Rita talk to Dominic about the search for the whole truth of their family background, and what it's been like getting to know their long-lost brothers and sisters.

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