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Program: How a nun with dementia helped Peter Bell's birth mother find him

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Peter Bell was born in South Korea, and adopted by an Australian couple as a baby.

He was raised in a large, loving family in Kojonup, a small town in Western Australia.

Peter discovered a prodigious talent for AFL when he was 10 years old. 

He loved the game so much he would sleep with his football at night.

Peter was at the peak of his professional footballing career when he got a phone call from his Korean birth mother Kyung Ae.

She had found him with the help of an ailing nun, who remembered the baby she'd handed over 25 years earlier.

Further information

Originally broadcast in February 2018.

Watch Peter Bell's speech after being inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame.

Peter now works in development at the West Australian Football Commission.

He appeared on stage in Perth as part of Conversations LIVE, the program's 20th anniversary tour.

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Australian Rules Football, Adoption, Human Interest
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