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When the Bough Breaks (1971)

NR | May 06, 1971 (GB) | Drama, TV Movie | 01:15

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.

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Hannah Gordon
Margaret Ashdown
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Cheryl Kennedy
Sheila Gosse
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Neil McCarthy
Eddie Gosse
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Donald Burton
Dr. Cunningham
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Edith MacArthur
Audrey Campbell
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Griffith Davies
George Standish
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Mark Parr
Timmy Gosse
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Ysanne Churchman
Sister Thompson
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Ruth Kettlewell
Sister Potts
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Margaret Elliot
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