Two films which tell how we have come to understand the body's astonishing ability to fight disease and what this means to a baby in the 1970s in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. 1: Undefended Children
JEREMY STYRON , DAVID CAMP and ALASDAIR WILKINSON were all born without the ability to fight infection. Their parents were faced with pabies who contracted illness after illness, each one potentially fatal.
Robert Reid follows the developments which explain the predicament of these babies and made it Possible for one of them to have the first-ever successful transplant ofbone marrow from his sister. Written and narrated by ROBERT REID
Film editor BOB HARVEY research OLIVER MORSE Producer
ROBIN PRIGHTWELL