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Stories in Sound: Springtown Baby

Jane Russell

20/03/2016

Springtown Baby

BBC Radio Ulster - Stories in Sound, Springtown Baby

The story of Jane Russell's adoption of a boy from Derry's Springtown camp.

Marie-Louise Muir tells the story of the scandal caused when Hollywood actress Jane Russell adopted a boy from Springtown camp, in Derry.

Marie-Louise Muir tells the story of a little boy called Thomas and two women - Hollywood superstar Jane Russell and Hannah McDermott from Derry's Springtown camp - which became an international scandal in the early 1950s, reverberating through the law courts of London and the boulevards of Beverly Hills.

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