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.

• Tony ParkerWriter
• James FermanDirector

• Hannah GordonMargaret Ashdown
• Cheryl KennedySheila Gosse
• Neil McCarthyEddie Gosse
• Donald BurtonDr. Cunningham
• Edith MacArthurAudrey Campbell
• Griffith DaviesGeorge Standish
• Mark ParrTimmy Gosse
• Ysanne ChurchmanSister Thompson
• Ruth KettlewellSister Potts
• Margaret ElliotReceptionist
• Andrew NeilAlec Foster
• Jumoke DebayoNurse