1: Moss Side
Moss Side, like Rampton, Broad-moor and Carstairs, is one of Britain's ageing special hospitals. A state institution in which people defined as violently subnormal and criminally insane are isolated from the rest of us.
In the first programme ever filmed inside a special hospital, Eric Rob son reports on the ' lifers ' of Moss Side - some convicted of horrific crimes, others, in the same wards, guilty of nothing more than being an administrative nuisance.
Patients as young as 12 and as old as 80, are side by side in a hospital where security, not treatment, appears to be the priority. Film cameraman DAVID cox Film editor BRUCE RAWLINGS Director GERRY TROYNA
Producer GERRY NORTHAM
Editor ROGER LAUGHTON BBC Manchester
(Part 2: ' Park Lane ', next Tuesday at 10.30 pm)