Meet the Experts: Dr Janette Bright on the Foundling Tokens

A hazelnut, a ribbon, a bent coin: small tokens mothers left behind at the Foundling Hospital in the 1700s, hoping one day to reclaim the child they'd had to leave. Dr Janette Bright explains what each object meant, and why so few were ever redeemed. Forty minutes that turn small tokens into whole lives, once broken, at last revived.