Episodes
DNA Family Secrets: Episode 3 (S2EP3 BBC Two Wed 25 May 2022)
Forty six year-old Mel only found out as a teenager that she was conceived using a sperm donor. Now she wants to see if she can find her biological father’s identity by decoding her DNA… and discovers far more than she ever expected.
When mother-of-six Fi looked into her adoption as an adult she made a horrific discovery: that her birth mum was murdered by her birth father, a few years after she was adopted. Fi now wonders if this man was really her biological father or if it might be someone else, which was rumoured at the time. She’s also concerned that, if this man is indeed her father, that she might have passed down a ‘murder gene’ to one of her six children.
Bahaa escaped the war in Syria with his wife and two children to live in the UK. But soon after his arrival, Bahaa’s brother, Alaa, had to undergo life-saving surgery after discovering he had cancer. Alaa survived, but discovered the cancer was caused by a genetic condition called Lynch Syndrome. There’s now a 50 percent chance that Bahaa carries the same gene – testing his DNA is the only way to find out.
Airdate: Wed 25 May 2022 at 21:00 on BBC Two
Season 2 Episode 3
Stacey Dooley helps to uncover people’s burning questions about their family, health or ancestry with a visit to a DNA testing clinic.