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Knife to the Heart: The Great Organ Hunt

on BBC One London

Concluding the series about the history of transplant surgery.

Tonight, the controversial methods that are being used to boost the supply of organs. In India, transplant organs are up for sale and many poor women have sold a kidney to feed and educate their families. In France, a mother tells the disturbing story of how she found out that the eyes of her teenage son had been removed from his body after he was killed in a road accident. Now, faced with a shortage of human organs, some researchers are experimenting with those of animals.
(Stereo)
See Polly Toynbee: page 14

Contributors

Director:
Jenny Barraclough
Series Producer:
Tony Stark

BBC One London

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