Too Old to be a Mum?

With no legal age limits on IVF treatment and biological boundaries being pushed ever further, how do we decide how old is just too old to be a new Mum?

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Christmas Tales

In this three-part series, Fiona Phillips focuses on three of our most enduring and best-loved, festive icons; Father Christmas, Angels and Christmas Trees.

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BOSNIA'S WAR BABIES

BBC World Service

Radovan Karadzic is on trial in the Hague, indicted for war crimes during the Bosnian conflict of the ‘90s.   These crimes included the army’s systematic rape of 20,000 women and children, which continues to have repercussions in the form of stigma, poverty, sickness, shame, and - for those women who bore children AND kept them - the added burden of teenagers asking difficult questions about their identity.  

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Peter started his broadcast career in 1973 in Manchester as a Granada Television production trainee and went on to work as a researcher on "World In Action", "University Challenge" and "Granada Reports".

He moved to the BBC four years later where he produced and directed programmes for "Panorama", "Newsnight" and "Nationwide". In 1984 Peter returned to his native Belfast where he both set up the BBC's first youth department and became the acting head of BBC Radio Ulster.

Between 1986 and 1992 Peter launched the BBC's first daytime programme, "Open Air", a daily live interactive programme from Manchester where viewers could challenge programme makers, edited "Wogan", BBC-1's thrice weekly eponymous talk show and ran Topical Features where he was responsible for "That's Life!", "Watchdog", "Video Diaries" and "Children In Need". 

Peter joined Barraclough Carey in 1992 and a year later set up Barraclough Carey North in Manchester where he introduced Channel Four's "People's Parliament", BBC-2's "Pound for Pound" and Radio Four's "Times Past..Times Future" with Jeremy Paxman.

In 1998 Peter moved to Discovery as Vice President, Programming and Production for the UK and Europe. He was promoted to Discovery's corporate headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA four years later as General Manager, Animal Planet International. In 2005 Peter was invited to become Senior Vice President, Content for Discovery Latin America's nine networks.

Former Exec in BBC Religion, responsible for long-running strands, major docs, on Radios 2, 3, 4 – and producer of the live and provocative Moral Maze.

At CTVC he has produced programmes on Iraq’s Persecuted Minorities, Bio-fuels, Child Evangelists, Citizen Journalism, Bosnia’s War Babies, the Atrocity Archives in Guatemala, and The First Bible.

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Wendy Robbins joined CTVC form the BBC and is an experienced broadcast journalist who has worked on numerous current affairs programmes including Panorama, Newsnight,  Public Eye, Watchdog and Here and Now. Her achievements in investigative journalism include an innocent man being released from death row and the closure of an old age home in South London for inadequate care of the elderly. 

From 2004 to 2006  she ran the BBC Current Affairs Development team which led to 3 major “seasons” for BBC 3, and the 6 part “Backlash” series for BBC 2 which introduced celebrity presenters with something to say on current issues. Following this Wendy set up a new development team in factual to co-ordinate and develop major Cross-Platform/ Cross Genre ideas for BBC 1, 2 3 after which she went on to executive produce high profile series such as “Fat Teens Can’t Hunt”, “Everest ER” and “Casualty 1907”.

She has also reported on BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent; File On Four, and recently presented the critically-acclaimed “The House I Grew Up In”.

Her early career as a Sunday Times researcher was immortalised on screen in 2007 by Celia Meiras in BBC 2’s “Nuclear Secrets” - the story of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli technician who was kidnapped by Mossad for revealing Israel’s nuclear secrets to the press.

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