David Lomas Investigates

Investigative journalist David Lomas hasn't lost his enthusiasm for finding Kiwi families' missing puzzle pieces. The second season of David Lomas ...

And I've lost no enthusiasm at all, it's still a magic thing to get up and do each day." "We do research in the sense of talking to all the family who might have answers and then we start trying to search. Often we take the person with us and everyone's on a deadline. And we just cross our fingers and hope that we're right." "Sometimes we fail and we don't get there on time and we have to do something else. You can't say, this is going to take two weeks so let's have a holiday on the beach," Lomas says. And it's impossible not to tear up at the sight of a daughter reuniting with her long-lost father, or siblings meeting for the first time. It's a very powerful story and a lot of them are very brave for the way they tell us what's happened to them. The viewers get engaged, and we do when we're working on the programme. "We're looking for stories with twists and turns. The people who come on the programme open up and tell a story, which is remarkable. "The more I've done these programmes - and it's been a long time now doing them - I am just so staggered by how many people tell me they have someone in their family missing.