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Thalidomide - Life at Forty

Type: Other
Released: 2002
Directed by: Benetta Adamson

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Status

  • Broadcast within UK

Synopsis:

Documentary about people born suffering the effects of the anti-morning sickness drug Thalidomide as they reach the age of forty. Janette Cooke, a woman who was born without any limbs and who became the first with such a condition to give birth celebrates her 40th birthday with a party for 150 people. Kevin Donellon now lectures in Disability Rights and Gary Skyner is a stand up comic.
Synopsis:
Documentary about people born suffering the effects of the anti-morning sickness drug Thalidomide as they reach the age of forty. Janette Cooke, a woman who was born without any limbs and who became the first with such a condition to give birth celebrates her 40th birthday with a party for 150 people. Kevin Donellon now lectures in Disability Rights and Gary Skyner is a stand up comic.
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