WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY
Current affairs
Baby Be Mine: Journey of Love
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC1 London & South East
VIDEO Plus+: 8361
Subtitled, Widescreen
Here's a two-parter that shamelessly plucks every heartstring as it looks at three very different tales of adoption. Bill and Jane, from Shropshire, go to China to collect their new daughter, 18-month-old Kai Ya, one of many thousands of Chinese baby girls abandoned every year. In Romania, a British woman, Sarah, fosters Dylan, a young boy with autism whose mum decides she wants him back. And in the USA, a hollow-eyed Amy gives an emotional account of her family's adoption of two Siberian children, and its terrible outcome. You'll need a soul made of concrete not to be moved - assuming, that is, you can get past the frequently cloying narration by Sophie Okonedo and the lounge-music soundtrack.
RT reviewer: Alison Graham
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