Animals
First on More4 Dec 2005
Docu-drama following the fictional stories of a lab biologist and an animal rights activist.
Animals is a dramatised account of the conflict between animal rights activists and scientists that escalates into an intensely polarised, vicious and hard-fought battle.
Those trying to stop animal experimentation have been named 'quasi-terrorists' stopping at nothing to achieve their objectives. Those who are engaged in animal research do so under siege: if they haven't been singled out already, they work in secret and under threat.
Are these people pioneering heroes trying to save human life and cure disease, or are they complicit in an animal holocaust where millions of animals suffer terrible pain in the arrogant name of science?
Related links
Webchat Mon 12 Dec, with Dr Simon Festing (head of the Research Defense Society) and John Curtin (animal rights activist). Read the transcript
View the timeline
Displays events in the animal liberation movement and key dates of medical advances.
View the Harry Harlow image gallery
