Searching for My Other Mam - Our Lives

BBC One Wales

3:50 PM to 4:20 PM

Sunday 6 October

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Having been raised Welsh by his adoptive white parents, Gerallt Wyn Jones finds the courage to go looking for his birth parents. In 1973, born black to a white unwed mother, Gerallt was given away when he was only a few weeks old. Raised speaking Welsh in a very white north-west Wales, he has always felt different to everyone. Almost 50 years on - and fearing he may have left it too late - he can't hold back any longer from searching for the black father and heritage he's never known, and for the young white mother who felt she had no choice but to give him away