CTVC

THE PRICE OF BIOFUELS

The West is investing heavily in bio-fuels, despite mounting evidence that what was once seen as the answer to global warming and dwindling oil stocks is now playing a negative role in the world food crisis.

IRAQ’S FORGOTTEN CONFLICT

Untold until now is the story of a campaign of liquidation against Iraq’s religious minorities who, post invasion, have faced extinction via persecution, exile, murder.

Too Old to be a Mum?

BBC1
Jan 2010

Sue Tollesfen was nearly 58 years old when she had her first child, Freya. Now, approaching her 60th birthday, she’s exploring the possibilities of a second baby.
63 year old Lauren Cohen has three children under 5. Yet even she is seven years younger than the current title-holder of “The World’s Oldest Mother.” That’s 70 year old Rajo Devi, who has finally had a long-awaited first child after 50 years of trying.
Sue, Lauren and Rajo represent a growing number of women around the world who, with the help of IVF, are defying nature to become mothers after the menopause. Yet is their decision a wise one?
With biological boundaries being pushed ever further and the absence of any age limit on IVF, how do we decide when old is just too old to be a mum?

Director – Jane Sayers.

A CTVC production for BBC 1 transmitted on 26 January 2010

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Reviews:

"The film tiptoed through the ethical eggshells with an equanimity that did its makers proud"

"a perfect subject for a television documentary"

The Telegraph

"That rare programme that leaves you with your mouth hanging slightly open"

"It was to this film's great credit that it never presented any of this as an aid to making your mind up"

The Guardian

"The programme will probably keep radio phone-in lines busy today on the rights and wrongs of wrinkly parents"

The Times

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