A series of films on the way we live now. Short Stories
Some call them 'dwarves': they call themselves 'persons of restricted growth'. There are more than 10,000 in Britain and, for all of them, being small is no laughing matter. Mike Ballan is just 37 inches tall - making him the smallest man in Britain.
His twin brother Malcolm is nearly twice his height. Frances Gaywood is an adopted child. Her natural parents couldn't cope with the fact that she, unlike them, was a dwarf.
Tom Shakespeare is the son and heir of Sir William Shakespeare. Tom's at Cambridge - a political activist, hair-dyed, confident, and something of a trial to his tall, tidy mother. In childhood
Gladys Nicholson was hung from bars and painfully stretched - to no avail. But soon she's to marry Bernard Brooks - a shy watch-repairer, who for years couldn't bear to look in a mirror, or even a shop window. He kept thinking to himself that he was tall.
They have all learned to live in what for them is anything but a small world.
Narrator Richard Denton
Photography REX MAIDMENT , CHRIS SEAGER Film editor PETER BARBER
Assistant producer CATRINE CLAY Producer COLLEEN TOOMEY Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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