Growing up black in a white family – the truth behind my birth

在白人家庭中长大,身为黑人——我出生背后的真相

The Documentary Podcast

2026-04-05

39 分钟
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M People star Andrew Lovell’s home life hid a terrible – yet beautiful – secret. It would take him decades to find out the truth. At the height of his fame, drummer Andrew ‘Shovell’ Lovell had everything he’d dreamed of: sex, drugs and regular appearances at the top of the charts with the dance music band M People. But sell-out shows, first-class travel and five-star hotels couldn’t stop the questions gnawing away at him. As a mixed-race kid growing up in a white family in south London he wanted to know: who were his birth parents? Why had they given him up?
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  • My dad called me down and I walked into the living room and the television was off.

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