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There are three hydrangea heads there and there is also a red rose, which I swear wasn't there on Sunday. So somebody has been here since I put my flowers there on Sunday. It's not even just flowers. One year, there was a massive sheaf of corn, a pheasant's feather, a big tail feather, it was. It is something I really dearly would love to solve.

There are three hydrangea heads there and there is also a red rose, which I swear wasn't there on Sunday. So somebody has been here since I put my flowers there on Sunday. It's not even just flowers. One year, there was a massive sheaf of corn, a pheasant's feather, a big tail feather, it was. It is something I really dearly would love to solve.

These are the words of Ann Kear as she stood in a graveyard beside the headstone of her brother, Karl Smith, who drowned in 1947. She spoke them to a BBC reporter as part of the documentary The Stranger at My Brother’s Grave. What puzzled Ann was that, for more than 70 years, someone had regularly left flowers and other small tokens at Karl’s grave.

Ann was only seven when her brother died, and she admits that she remembers very little about him. The flowers and mementoes left at his grave stirred her curiosity. Who was this person, and what might they be able to tell her about the brother she barely knew? To Ann, the persistence of these acts of remembrance suggested that Karl had meant something important to someone. She hoped that finding the person or people behind........

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