Presenter's emotional journey to find his roots

GIVEN up for adoption at five days old, this is Nicky Campbell's extraordinary story of his search for - and reunion with - his natural parents. Nicky Campbell, the BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC1 Watchdog presenter, was adopted as a baby into a comfortable, Protestant, Edinburgh family. His father was a map publisher, who had served in the Indian Army during the War, and his mother was a psychiatric social worker. He went to one of the best schools in Scotland, read history at Aberdeen University, and then embarked on a successful career in the media. He began the search to trace his natural mother in 1990, embarking upon a journey that was to prove obsessive and, at times, almost unbearably emotional. His meeting with Stella, his natural mother, was not the epiphany he had hoped for, but it led to the discovery of a half-sister, Esther. They shared the same natural mother, a Protestant Irish hospital matron, but they had different natural fathers, although both had been Catholic Irish policemen. Blue-Eyed Son is a candid and vivid account of Nicky Campbell's journey to find his roots, the dark secrets he discovers along the way and the emotional journey he has had to make since finding them.