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Gale Is Dead

Type: TV - Series or strand
Released: 1970
Length: 52 min.
Directed by: Jenny Barraclough

Crew

Editor Bernard Ashby

Production Company BBC

Full credits (Main credits only)

Themes

Status

  • Broadcast within UK

Synopsis:

This documentary follows the life of a young drug addict who did not belong at school, corerectional institutions nor jail. Fatherless and despised by her mother, the documentary shows the harsh reality that some young people are faced with. She finally died of an overdose at the age of 19 and the documentary had a big impact at the time.

Part of the BBC's Man Alive strand.
World Service Education
Synopsis:
This documentary follows the life of a young drug addict who did not belong at school, corerectional institutions nor jail. Fatherless and despised by her mother, the documentary shows the harsh reality that some young people are faced with. She finally died of an overdose at the age of 19 and the documentary had a big impact at the time.

Part of the BBC's Man Alive strand.
World Service Education
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