When the Bough Breaks

Overview

NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.

Directed by James Ferman

Top cast

Hannah Gordon

Margaret Ashdown

C

Cheryl Kennedy

Sheila Gosse

Neil McCarthy

Eddie Gosse

Donald Burton

Dr. Cunningham

E

Edith MacArthur

Audrey Campbell

G

Griffith Davies

George Standish

M

Mark Parr

Timmy Gosse

Ysanne Churchman

Sister Thompson

Ruth Kettlewell

Sister Potts

M

Margaret Elliot

Receptionist

Andrew Neil

Alec Foster

J

Jumoke Debayo

Nurse

I

Isla Cameron

Switchboard operator

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