When the Bough Breaks

NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.

Director: James Ferman

Cast: Hannah Gordon, Cheryl Kennedy, Neil McCarthy, Donald Burton, Edith MacArthur, Griffith Davies, Mark Parr, Ysanne Churchman

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