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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 12 sec.) ; 307496380 bytes |
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CROSSING THE LINEControversial and confronting, Susan Potts' story is sure to spark the euthanasia debate. Susan Potts' was a fit and active 89-year old, she led a rich and colourful life. Despite being in good health, sprightly and with all her mental faculties, Potts simply wanted to check out, on her terms, to her own timetable. She also wanted her decision to become a talking point for the euthanasia debate. A NEW DAWN Features and interview with Dawn French, one of the best-loved women in comedy. Nothing was off limits and her legion of fans may be surprised to learn her joyful attitude to life comes despite periods of enormous pain. THE HUNGERInvestigates Prader-Willi syndrome, a random brain abnormality that causes many victims to literally eat themselves to death. Around two dozen Australian babies are born with it every single year, while an estimated 400,000 people live with it around the world |
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Broadcast 2012-11-11 at 18:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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French, Dawn.
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Brain -- Abnormalities.
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Celebrities -- Interviews.
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Euthanasia -- Law and legislation.
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Prader-Willi syndrome.
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Older women -- Psychology.
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England -- London.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Bath, Chris, host
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Coulthart, Ross, reporter
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Duffy, Michael, reporter
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Noonan, Troupe, reporter
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Arch-Rowe, Elaine, contributor
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Brown, Colette, contributor
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Brown, Laetitia, contributor
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Dangerfield, Gillian, contributor
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French, Dawn, contributor
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Jennings, Danielle, contributor
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Nitschke, Philip, contributor
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Papadopoulos, Zoe, contributor
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Potts, Susan, contributor
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Reilly, Gail, contributor
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Rigney, Donna, contributor
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Williams, Katie, contributor
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Williams, Tony, contributor
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