Defying the Label — Season 1, Episode 1: Don’t Take My Baby
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 15 episodes
Episode synopsis
An extraordinary factual drama which tells the story of a disabled couple’s agonising struggle to keep their new-born baby. Based on real-life testimony, this emotional tale will call viewers’ prejudices and beliefs about the disabled community and society as a whole into question, as we learn about a situation many disabled couples find themselves in as new parents. Can 21-year-old wheelchair user Anna, played by newcomer Ruth Madeley, and partially sighted Tom, played by Adam Long (Happy Valley, Spike Island), provide the everlasting care and attention their daughter needs, or will social worker Belinda, played by Wumni Mosaku (Philomena, Dancing On The Edge, I Am Slave) have to consider alternative care?
About Defying the Label
Explores what it's like to live with a disability in the UK today.
More episodes from Season 1
- E2Me & My New Brain
- E3The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime
- E4Wanted: A Very Personal Assistant, Episode 1
- E5The Boy Who Wants His Leg Cut Off
- E6The World’s Worst Place to Be Disabled?
- E7The Unbreakables: Life & Love on Disability Campus, Episode 1
- E8Wanted: A Very Personal Assistant, Episode 2
- E9Disabled in an Instant
- E10Life Begins Now
- E11The Unbreakables: Life & Love on Disability Campus, Episode 2
- E12Epilepsy & Me
- E13Find a Home for My Brother