Britain's extraordinary 10-year-olds.

Date:
2007
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Description

This programme looks at the lives of three of Britain's extraordinary ten-year-olds whose bravery and resilience is breath-taking and moving. Danielle Griffin has a very rare form of dwarfism known as pseudo-achondroplasia which mean at ten she is only two foot eleven inches tall and the looseness of her hips and joints means she suffers from terrible pains in her legs and joints on a daily basis. We follow her as she meets up with one other ten-year-old girl with the same condition and also a girl and her mother who have the more common form of achondroplasia. Terri Calvesbert was in a devastating house fire when she was a baby and suffered 88% burns to her body. She was not expected to survive the night. Now she is a confident little girl who doesn't let her physical appearance or disabilities interrupt her school life and dreams for the future. Callum Chapman looks after his disabled mother and five-year-old sister with little help from outside, managing cooking, shopping, washing and facing life in the future with an incredibly mature attitude.

Publication/Creation

UK : BBC2, 2007.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

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Notes

Broadcast on 17 April, 2007

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