TESTING TIMES
THE people learning more about the secrets contained in their DNA tonight include couple Michaela and Richie.
They realised they could pass down a potentially deadly genetic mutation when their first son was diagnosed with Bubble Boy Disease, a rare condition which means he has no immune system.
Now they’re testing their newborn son’s DNA to help find out if he needs to undergo life-saving gene therapy.
We also hear about Georgina who was conceived during a holiday romance 34 years ago when her mum Maura fell for a Portuguese waiter.
Maura raised her daughter herself, never returning to Portugal to tell him he had a child.
“I should have told him,
Ben wakes up after spending the night in The Arches and panics when he hears Dave banging on the door for his wages.
Later Kheerat, below, sees the state Ben is in and suggests he takes some time off. He shares his concerns with Kathy. Kathy confronts Ben, but as she continues to blame him for what happened with Callum, things become too much for Ben and she has a sudden realisation.
Rainie panics when she learns that Vi left Stuart with Roland. but there’s a fear of rejection,” she tells host Stacey Dooley.
Looking at her mum’s holiday snaps of her father, Georgina says: “I’m looking at someone that I know nothing about, but I’m desperate to know about.”
Georgina wants to know if her father is still alive and, if so, let him know he has a daughter.
Also tonight, we meet Matthew who grew up in foster care never knowing where his father came from.
He now wants to discover his ancestry and if he is actually Caribbean.
DNA FAMILY SECRETS
BBC2, 9pm
EASTENDERS
BBC1, 7.30pm