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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17

DAVID LOMAS INVESTIGATES

Finding the lost connections

Screening: Three, 8.40pm

Streaming: ThreeNow

The suppliers of facial tissues can breathe easy – David Lomas is back to make everybody cry again. The veteran journalist helps find answers to unsolved family mysteries and reconnect lost relatives, and in this season that means the search for a professional rugby player’s biological father, finding a Wairarapa farmer’s birth parents and manifesting for a Māori

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