The Lost Child

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Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

It is 1968 and the shame of illegitimacy still burns the cheeks of single mothers and the families who force their unmarried daughters into 'mother and baby homes'. When the adopted child of a middle-class couple is kidnapped, suspicion falls upon the baby's birth mother. However, Gently and Bacchus's investigation into the mother and baby home itself reveals a much darker side to this hothouse of morality and raises serious questions about this seemingly perfect couple.

Credits

George Gently
Martin Shaw
John Bacchus
Lee Ingleby
Frances Groves
Helen Baxendale
Stephen Groves
Mark Gatiss
Esther Dunwoody
Alison Steadman
Peter Bacchus
Tony Haygarth
PC Taylor
Simon Hubbard
Hazel Joyce
Faye Castelow
Mary
Molly Roberts
Susan Faulkner
Holly Lucas
Andrew Fleming
Andrew Frame
Farmer Kennedy
Terence Hillyer
Gareth
Jordan Dawes
Leigh Ann Bacchus
Katie Anderson
Young Frances
Jessica Hargreaves
Young Stephen
Samuel Clayton
Director
Gillies MacKinnon
Producer
Faye Dorn
Writer
Peter Flannery

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