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Episode 4: Colleen Barnard.
In this episode we welcome adoptee, Colleen Barnard who was born in the same Magdalene Home in Brisbane where last week’s guest, Lily Arthur, was incarcerated for the crime of being pregnant and unwed. Colleen describes her adoption journey as a Magdalene baby, the challenges of finding her own id…
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Episode 3: Lily Arthur.
In this episode we welcome back Lily Arthur, CEO of Origins Australia, long term political activist and best-selling author whose book, Prisoner of the State, gives a voice to 150,000 Australian unmarried mothers whose babies were systematically stolen from them under the Commonwealth Government’s …
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Episode 2: Moses Farrow. Part 2.
On this episode we continue our conversation with Moses Farrow, the adopted son of US actress Mia Farrow and Director Woody Allen, as he exposes the truth behind the multi-billion dollar adoption industry - a euphemism for a criminal global child supply market in which babies are commodities to be …
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Episode 1: Moses Farrow. Part 1.
In 1980, two-year-old Moses Farrow was among the 200,000 babies and children taken from South Korean orphanages and children’s homes and sent overseas - sold to new families who promised to give them the sort of lives they could never have in their own country. Moses, who had been born with Cerebr…
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Somebody’s Daughter: Someone Else’s Child. The brand new season, begins April 28.
Somebody’s Daughter – Someone Else’s Child This season, the fight for justice is far from over. We hear more heartbreaking stories from the survivors of forced adoption, about loss, lies and cover ups. We go global, speaking with some of thebrave individuals leading the crusade for justice and t…
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Episode 7: Hon Justice Mushin
In the final episode of the season, Megan and Moyra are joined by the Honorable Naheem Mushin, former Family Court Justice of 21 years, who was appointed by the Attorney General to head the committee investigating the practice of forced adoption and the claims being made by so many women, children …
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Episode 6: Rosalie Wilson
Rosalie Wilson shares her own unique experience, firstly living in a home where her mother adopted other children. She recalls how her mother had given birth to two girls (herself & her sister), but instead wanted boys - so she simply decided to adopt one she liked from the public hospital in Melbo…
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Episode 5: Sophia Fletcher
Megan & Moyra are joined by Sophia Fletcher, who was forcibly adopted during this period. Born in Brisbane in 1962, she was removed from her birth mother - who she has never found despite 40 years of searching. She speculates that her mother may have been an illegitimate child herself, making it i…
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Episode 4: Dianne Wells
In 1969, Queensland teenager Dianne Wells was in love and dreaming of a happy new life with her first boyfriend where she’d have children and a home of her own. Tragically, those dreams came crashing down when the sixteen-year-old discovered she was pregnant out of wedlock. Abandoned by her partn…
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Episode 3: Linda Davis
My newborn daughter was stolen from me – and returned to steal my life. In 1973, new mum Linda Davis, woke from a caesarean to discover that her newborn daughter was missing – one of 150,000 Australian babies stolen from young unmarried mothers under the Government’s illegal forced adoption practi…
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