looking_for_fairytale_castles_doc
  • Category: Radio Documentary
  • Country: Ireland
  • Duration: 0 Hour(s) 43 Mins
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: RTÉ Radio 1
  • Producer: Nicoline Greer

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Looking for Fairytale Castles

Looking for Fairytale Castles

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On 11th April 1972 a baby named Martina was born in Dublin.  Six weeks later Martina got a new name - Jenny - when she was adopted.

At the age of 20, Jenny decided to trace her birth parents and met her birth mother for the first time. It was to be fourteen years until she felt ready to contact her again.

In this documentary, Jenny and her birth mother speak candidly about the hurt and the pain caused by the adoption process and the journey that they have been on to get to know each other after 36 years apart.