Since work started on the forthcoming series of Long Lost Family (Series 15) and Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace (Series 6), in September 2024, Lottie and the team have uncovered new information resolving a long term search and enabling new family connections.
The new series will be airing on ITV in the Spring and Summer of 2025.
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2011 – present (Long Lost Family and Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace)
Long Lost Family
Lottie Bruce-Lloyd is the lead search and social work consultant for ITV’s documentary series Long Lost Family. Lottie took over this leading role in 2025 from Ariel Bruce who had undertaken the research to trace and make contact with missing family members for every series since 2011.
Lottie works closely with the rest of the research team; Clare Bruce-Lloyd, Ariel Bruce, Louise Baldock, Janet Bishop, Carolynne Bull ASA, Glesni Evans ASA, Catrina Milford, Cheryl Oliver and Dario Regazzi.
Long Lost Family was recently announced as the winner of the 2021 TV Choice Award for Best Lifestyle category. The documentary series previously won the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) for Best Feature in 2014, as well as the prestigious Royal Television Society [RTS] Programme Awards for the Popular Factual and Features category in 2012.
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace, presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, was announced as the winner of the Features category at the 2021 BAFTA awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and the winner of the Best Factual Series category at the 2021 Rose d’Or awards.
Further information on this series can be found on the ITV website: Long Lost Family
2014
The Great Train Robbery
A film documentary, A Tale of Two Thieves, released in 2014, claims to solve one of the Great Train Robbery mysteries that dogged investigators at the time – the identity of the infamous “Ulsterman”, credited with being the inside man at the Royal Mail. The film-makers employed our team to identify him. We are extensively interviewed as part of the film. See The Great Train Robber unmasked: The Irish Independent, 5th October 2014. And also Great Train Robbery cash was passed on to Catholic church, claims film’, Duncan Campbell, The Guardian 2nd September 2014.
2009
Ariel was the research consultant on the Channel 4 documentary ‘The Homecoming‘. Read about it in the Telegraph and Community Care
2001
Fifteen – Daisy Asquith
In 2001 Ariel worked as a consultant on Daisy Asquith’s documentary series ‘Fifteen’ for Windfall Films. Ariel helped Asquith to reunite one of the three protagonist’s with their birth mother, and facilitated a meeting for the documentary.
An interview with Daisy Asquith can be read here.
1992
Hanratty: The Mystery of Deadman’s Hill
Ariel worked as a researcher on this “True Stories” programme, produced by Bob Woofinden for Channel 4.
Bloomsbury Research 