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Real Lives: Baby Searchers

on BBC One London

Victims and villains, leaders and led, the extraordinary and the ordinary. A series of filmed documentaries about the way people live now.
In a desperate search for the child they had been unable to have themselves, Ray and Susan Kelly travelled 6,000 miles from their south London greengrocers shop to the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the city's orphanages they saw thousands of abandoned tiny children. They met pregnant mothers who wanted their babies to be adopted when born. They battled with bureaucracy. Susan Kelly says:
"I am yearning to have a child, not necessarily through my own body, but to have something I can pick up and cuddle and look after and be a mother to." The Kellys are among the many childless couples who find it increasingly difficult to adopt in Britain. But looking for babies abroad is difficult, and controversial.
FEATURE: page 13

Contributors

Subject:
Ray Kelly
Subject:
Susan Kelly
Film Editor:
Chris Lysaght
Assistant Producer:
Colleen Toomey
Executive Producer:
Peter Pagnamenta
Producer:
Louise Panton

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