[Part 1] Living with his third wife Petrina and their nine children in a three-bedroom terraced house, Mike's home is hugely ... overcrowded and the kids often double up because there is not enough space for them each to have their own bed. With benefits of 27,000 pounds a year to live on, however, Mike appears oblivious to what other people think of his family and we follow them through the chaos and extravagance of Christmas, the prospect of Mike being jailed for drink-driving, and his boys getting in trouble with the police.
[Part 1] Liesbeth and Angelique were born identical – they share 100% of their DNA. Emotionally, they have never quite separated. Now Liesbeth wants to leave but she worries what Angelique will do without her. This stylish and original film by award-winning director Agnieszka Piotrowska takes an intimate look at the emotional complexity and depression that can arise from such a close, competitive – and loving – sibling relationship.
[Part 2] Liesbeth and Angelique were born identical – they share 100% of their DNA. Emotionally, they have never quite separated. Now Liesbeth wants to leave but she worries what Angelique will do without her. This stylish and original film by award-winning director Agnieszka Piotrowska takes an intimate look at the emotional complexity and depression that can arise from such a close, competitive – and loving – sibling relationship.
[Part 2] An absorbing and revealing insight into the chaotic world of the large family. This observational documentary from the Cutting Edge strand follows three extensive families - who currently have 34 children between them - to explore the emotional, religious and psychological reasons why they have a need to keep on having more.
[Part 1] Filmmaker Sue Bourne's mother has Alzheimer's and now lives in a nursing home in Scotland. For the last three ... years Sue, and her daughter Holly, have been filming with Sue's mother. Their film is a funny, charming, quirky and sometimes harrowing record of how the family have fumbled along trying to make sense of the disease.
[Part 1] Shannon Matthews is a British girl who disappeared on the afternoon of 19 February 2008 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. The search for the nine-year-old became a major missing person police operation. She was found alive on 14 March 2008 at a house in Batley Carr, West Yorkshire, belonging to 39-year-old Michael 'Mick' Donovan, Shannon’s stepfather's uncle. Donovan, formerly known as Paul Drake, was arrested at the scene, and subsequently charged with the kidnapping and false imprisonment of Shannon. Karen Matthews, Shannon's mother, was charged with child neglect and perverting the course of justice, on 8 April 2008. Donovan and Matthews are due to remain in jail until they face a joint trial starting on 11 November 2008.
[Part 1] An absorbing and revealing insight into the chaotic world of the large family. This observational documentary from the Cutting Edge strand follows three extensive families - who currently have 34 children between them - to explore the emotional, religious and psychological reasons why they have a need to keep on having more.
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Unforgiven, The Boys Who Murdered Jamie Bulger [Part 1]
[Part 1] Documentary reporting on the proposed forthcoming release of murderers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, and the emotions this has stirred up, with the Justice for James campaign organised by James Bulger's mother Denise Fergus, protesting against their release. Looks at questions of punishment and rehabilitation and at how inmates at secure units are treated.
[Part 1] There are more than 300 people living in the 116 houses on filmmaker Sue Bourne's street. Until now she barely knew a soul. She tweaks the net curtains and reveals remarkable stories, hidden from view, on what could be any street. There are millionaires living next door to people on benefits, convicted drug smugglers alongside classical composers
[Part 2] Shannon Matthews is a British girl who disappeared on the afternoon of 19 February 2008 in Dewsbury, ... West Yorkshire, England. The search for the nine-year-old became a major missing person police operation. She was found alive on 14 March 2008 at a house in Batley Carr, West Yorkshire, belonging to 39-year-old Michael 'Mick' Donovan, Shannon’s stepfather's uncle. Donovan, formerly known as Paul Drake, was arrested at the scene, and subsequently charged with the kidnapping and false imprisonment of Shannon. Karen Matthews, Shannon's mother, was charged with child neglect and perverting the course of justice, on 8 April 2008. Donovan and Matthews are due to remain in jail until they face a joint trial starting on 11 November 2008.
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