When the Bough Breaks

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.

Cast & Crew

Director

James Ferman

Hannah Gordon

Margaret Ashdown

Cheryl Kennedy

Sheila Gosse

Neil McCarthy

Eddie Gosse

Donald Burton

Dr. Cunningham

Edith MacArthur

Audrey Campbell

Griffith Davies

George Standish