Monkeys, rats and me : animal testing.

This documentary follows activists as they try to stop Oxford University building an £18m animal experimentation laboratory. Can experiments on animals to save human lives be justified? The animal rights activists such as Mel Broughton believe not, while Professor Tipu Aziz, a neurologist, believes it is a vital part of his work on the brains of people with serious neurological conditions. To illustrate Aziz's point we are introduced to Sean who has dysplasia and whose condition will deteriorate without the surgery shown here which has been made possible due to experiments on monkeys. Laurie Piecroft has started a pro-testing group to counter the work of the animal libeartion people. We see inside Tipu Aziz's monkey experimentation lab and he runs through what will happen to a monkey called Felix. The programme manages to maintain a neutral ground and as seems to be often the case with this debate, reaches no concrete ethical conclusions.