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About Foundling
On 6th October 1987, a newborn baby is found on the verge of a remote country lane in Suffolk. Police comb the area for clues and appeal for witnesses, but the mother is never found. The baby, Jess, is adopted. Journalist Lucy Greenwell has never forgotten the day when Jess was discovered. She was a child and lived nearby. For decades Lucy has wondered; what happened to Jess, and what could have driven a mother to leave her child in such an isolated place? When Lucy tracks Jess down, she finds a woman already deep in her own search for the truth, and a story far more tangled than either of them expected. What unfolds is a tale of long-held secrets and unintended consequences that spirals out of Jess’s control. Foundling is a six-part original series from Tortoise Investigates and The Observer To binge listen to all episodes today ad free, subscribe to The Observer (http://observer.co.uk/) and use the code AUDIO50 to get 50% off your annual subscription. Or subscribe to Observer+ on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to listen to all our podcasts, including this one, without any ads. Credits: Reporter - Lucy Greenwell Producer - Katie Gunning Original theme music - Tom Kinsella Sound design and additional music - Rowan Bishop Podcast artwork - Blythe Walker Sibthorp Narrative editor - Gary Marshall Editor - Jasper Corbett Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- The Observer
- Category
- news · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Jul 2026
- Latest episode
- 7 Jul 2026
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Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2
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On the verge | Foundling Ep 1
7 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2
Published 7 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Now she has two children of her own. Maybe she's better off not knowing. But while she's thinking about it, Laura gets a message out of the blue. It's from someone we're calling Sam. He says he's just come across Laura's post, the one Laura had written on that family reunion site nearly 10 years earlier in 2010, asking if anyone remembered a nanny who had found a baby in the 1980s. Laura had included the nanny's unusual surname. And it was when Sam Googled himself, hey, we've all done it, that a link to the post popped up. It popped up because they share a surname. And they share a surname because the nanny is Sam's sister. […]
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