Explore every episode of the podcast Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy

An invitation to a wedding sees Taj back in India. He is determined to hunt down his family and unravel his past. So why won’t Priya's family help him? As dead ends and disappointments spiral, Taj feels more lost than ever. Will he ever find the place that Chellamuthu called home? Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitter): ⁠@BlanchardTweets⁠ Blanchard House website: ⁠blanchard-house.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taj’s teenage years become difficult, until the LDS church sends him on a mission to London, England. When he arrives he gets a massive wake up call about who he really is and where he belongs. He returns home when a beautiful Indian girl called Priya walks into his life. He has no idea that she holds the key to something far more important than his heart when she finds his old cassette tape. Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitter): ⁠@BlanchardTweets⁠ Blanchard House website: ⁠blanchard-house.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chellamuthu gets a whole new identity as Taj Khyber Rowland. He also finally he finds his voice, and drops a bombshell on his adoptive parents. But as Taj becomes more integrated in his American life, Chellamuthu’s memories begin to blur and fade. Is it time to forget who he was and bury his dream of going home forever? Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitter): ⁠@BlanchardTweets⁠ Blanchard House website: ⁠blanchard-house.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can you love someone new when you still ache for what you have lost? A terrified Chellamuthu arrives in America, Fred and Linda Rowland shower him with love and gifts but are baffled why he just won’t settle. Linda decides to record Chellamuthu speaking Tamil but no one around him understands the secrets the child tells the tape and soon he will forever block the language from his memories. Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitter): ⁠@BlanchardTweets⁠ Blanchard House website: ⁠blanchard-house.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chellamuthu finds himself at an orphanage, hundreds of miles from home. He’s told to forget he ever had a family. Meanwhile, far away in America, Fred and Linda Rowland are excited. They’ve been approved to adopt a child from India; a toddler with no parents who was found begging on the streets, have they been told the truth? Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitter): ⁠@BlanchardTweets⁠ Blanchard House website: ⁠blanchard-house.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taj Khyber Rowland knows he’s not who people think he is but he can’t quite remember how his life went so off course. He decides to spool backwards, to his younger self. A daredevil seven year old Chellamuthu, living happily, but in abject poverty, with his large family in rural India. But when Chellamuthu disobeys his mother and goes to play at the bus station, he’s persuaded to board a bus with some bigger boys. He’s kidnapped. And there’s no going back. Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitter): ⁠@BlanchardTweets⁠ Blanchard House website: ⁠blanchard-house.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy tells the true story about Taj, a child in India who was taken from his family and adopted half a world away. Although his adoptive family initially knew nothing of his past, he never forgot who he really was – or that he was taken. But without the language or tools to return, and with no one who understood his story, the details faded, and Taj’s past was quietly boxed away – until one day when he discovers an old cassette tape he recorded as a child. Told through rare original recordings, immersive sound design and unforgettable first-person testimony. Hosted by Emma Jane Kirby, this is an unforgettable story of stolen childhood, the quest for truth, the triumph of love and the long road to belonging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices