Press & Publicity

A selection of press coverage for our work. Please click on the drop down menu below to delve into our history.

The Promise, DNA Trail: A fascinating story of DNA Forensics in which our team are featured.

The Indo Daily Podcast: Three siblings found in different Irish towns search for possible fourth sibling.

David McBride and Helen Ward, foundlings who along with their brother John  were reunited on Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace, talk to Kevin Doyle about their search for a possible fourth sibling.

2023

Generation Shame with Jon Holmes

A personal and political broadcast by Jon Holmes on historic adoptions in which Ariel is interviewed.

2022

Review of ‘Long Lost Family: Switched At Birth’ by Rod McPhee from The Sun

2020

A 5/5 review of Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace by Carol Midgley from The Times.

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2019

A 4/5 review of ‘Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace’ by Chitra Ramaswamy from the The Guardian

‘Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace’

Deepika Rajani explains how ‘Born Without Trace’ works in an INews article from Feb 2019. Read the full article by clicking here.

2015

In search of the source of my family (click link to read full article on The Guardian)

Long Lost Family 2017
Published in the Radio Times, 2-8 August Edition, pg 69, 4th August 2015
2009

Ariel was the research consultant on the Channel 4 documentary ‘The Homecoming‘. Read about it in the Telegraph and Community Care.

2000

At the turn of the millennium Ariel was again interviewed by The Times, this time by writer Maeve Haran, who’s book ‘Baby Come Back’ touches on adoption issues and the search for a long lost birth mother.

Long Lost Family Search
1994

In 1994 ‘The Big Issue’ interviewed Ariel as part of an article relating to the rise of private investigators. The piece made the cover of the issue and was widely well received.

Ariel Bruce private investigator
1993

Caroline Phillips dedicated her Evening Standard column to Ariel after a successful search involving the journalist Kate Adie. The full article can be read here – Click Link 

Missing person search London
1988

In 1988, Italian newspaper ‘La Stampa’ ran a full page article about Ariel and her work after she came to their attention during an Italian search she was working on.

How to trace a family member
1986

The Times ran a large article on Ariel Bruce in the mid 1980s, a time when many who were adopted during World War two began to search for their real parents.