In the thirties, a British child's chance of dying from a common infection was ten times what it is today. This account of the effect medical progress has had upon child mortality describes how the introduction of penicillin and a host of other antibiotics revolutionised the approach to tackling previously fatal diseases.
Plus a look at the postwar work of Dr Beryl Corner, who delivered the world's first quadruplets to be born by Caesarean.
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(Subtitled)

9.50-10.30 Spoonface Steinberg
A television film version of Lee Hall's award-winning radio play.
Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer.
As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
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Spoonface's final bow: page 4

(The season continues tomorrow at 9pm with The Health Visitor)