Last Chance, The

Synopsis: Henderson Hospital in Surrey is a mental hospital where patients must make their own rules for social behaviour and face the consequences when these rules are broken. As children the patients have failed to learn such rules, which often results in aggression. Some have spent much of their lives in prison, others have taken repeated overdoses, many have drifted in and out of psychiatric hospitals and see Henderson Hospital as their last chance.*
Series: Man Alive, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
Year of production: 1975
Availability: Sale; 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: Social welfare
Keywords: mental illness; psychiatric hospitals

Name: BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
Contact: Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
Email: BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
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Television Centre
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Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

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