Born Between The Lines: Lucy’s Adoption Story
by Queen Ethelburga’s Studios
What do you say to the parents you've never met? Lucy was adopted as a baby, and when she turned 18 she decided to find out. In Born Between the Lines, a five-part series made by two students in Queen Ethelburga's studio in York, she tells her own adoption story. She also sits down with other adopted people, parents and the professionals who bring families together, to talk honestly about identity, belonging and the comments nobody should have to hear. Each episode ends with a letter to her birth parents, and by the finale that letter has been answered.
Episodes
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Born Between The Lines Ep1 Lucy's Story
When Lucy was little, a boy at school asked if she used to live in an orphanage. In the first episode, Lucy and her best friend and Director, Anna, look at what adoption really means, bust the myths about who can adopt, and begin telling Lucy's story, from her "tummy mummy" to the people who told...
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Born Between The Lines Ep2 Adoption Process and Support
"Our job is to find families for our children, not children for our families." Charlotte and Steph from One Adoption West Yorkshire explain what really happens when someone decides to adopt, from the first information evening to the years after a child moves in. Why are some people told to wait?...
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Born Between The Lines Ep3 Mother and Adopted Daughter
Her brother was adamant he didn't want a new sister, until baby Holly crawled across the room and held her arms out to him and nobody else. Holly and her mum, Jane, share the stories that shaped their family, from sibling pranks and awkward questions to the day Holly's phone pinged with a message...
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Born Between The Lines Ep4 Social Attitudes and Stigmas
"Were you found in a bin?" "Didn't your parents want you?" Tanya, who manages the Adopteens service and is adopted herself, goes through the comments adopted teenagers hear every day, and Lucy recognises almost all of them. They talk about why adoption is still used as a punchline, what films and...
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Born Between The Lines Ep5 Looking Forward
At the start of the series, Lucy began a letter to the birth parents she had never spoken to. Now she has sent it, and both of them have written back. In the finale, adopted people, parents, friends and professionals share what they wish the world understood and the message they would leave for…
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About this show
What do you say to the parents you've never met? Lucy was adopted as a baby, and when she turned 18 she decided to find out. In Born Between the Lines, a five-part series made by two students in Queen Ethelburga's studio in York, she tells her own adoption story. She also sits down with other adopted people, parents and the professionals who bring families together, to talk honestly about identity, belonging and the comments nobody should have to hear. Each episode ends with a letter to her birth parents, and by the finale that letter has been answered.
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