Play for Today S1E19: When the Bough Breaks

  • Aired: 1971-05-06
  • Time: 21:20:00
  • Runtime: 75 minutes
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Overview

When Sheila, a young mother, fails to explain satisfactorily to the doctors how her baby fractured its skull, Margaret Ash down, an NSPCC social worker, is asked to investigate. Poverty, ignorance, a work-shy husband, and almost a tradition of family instability - these are only some of the things she discovers.