The Other Side

Series & Episodes

• Remembering Mum

  First broadcast: Thursday 12 March 2009, 2.35AM on Channel 4

  Lauren Bell is a normal girl with a dark secret. When she was nine years old her mother was brutally murdered. As a result Lauren lost all memory of her life before that day.

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• Death in the Bay: The Cockle-Pickers' Story

  First broadcast: Monday 09 March 2009, 2AM on Channel 4

  Morecambe Bay hit the headlines when 23 Chinese cockle-pickers drowned in its treacherous tides. Overnight the bay was propelled into the centre of a fierce debate over human rights and immigration. Within days, the incident had escalated into a nationwide scandal involving criminal gang masters and the exploitation of illegal workers in Britain today. But how did the tragedy affect the Chinese and English cockle-pickers of Morecambe Bay?

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• 21-Year-Old Baby

  This is the extraordinary tale of real-life Peter Pan girl, Tanya Donaldson. Believed to have been born with a genetic disorder so rare that doctors think no other case in the world exists, Tanya's condition leaves her forever trapped in the mind and body of a baby.

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• Back to Basra

  In 1979, Awatif Al-Badi had to make the worst choice any mother could imagine. Tortured by Saddam's secret police and faced with certain execution, Awatif was forced to abandon her two young daughters. Heavily pregnant, she fled across the desert.

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• Death of an Idealist

  Rachel Corrie was the 23-year-old American peace protestor who was crushed to death under the tracks of an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003. Her death became front-page news around the globe, and she was immediately declared the first American martyr to die in the conflict between Israel and Palestine, becoming an international icon for the peace movement.

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• Escape to Alaska

  Ever thought of quitting your job to follow your dreams? Wished you never had to do that commute or sit behind that desk again? After five years of trying, Guy Grieve finally gave it a go. He swapped the comfort of his Edinburgh office to build a log cabin in the bear-infested forests of Alaska.

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• Girl Racers

  Motor racing is a world of men and machines. Women have been sidelined as trophy wives, bit parts and bad drivers. But all that is about to change.

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• I'M All Shook Up: Parkinson's at 25

  Twenty-five-year-old Michael has a secret. Since he was 18 he has hidden it from his family, friends and even himself. But as it takes over his body, he must face his greatest fear for the first time.

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• Motörhead: Live Fast Die Young

  Motörhead are rock's most stubborn survivors. Formed in 1975 by rock legend Lemmy Kilmister, they were once one of Britain's biggest bands. Renowned for being among the heaviest drinking, drug-fuelled womanisers in the business, the band made the Guinness Book of Records as the loudest band ever. In the early eighties they blasted their way to the top of the charts with Ace of Spades.

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• Osama And U.S.

  Two young opportunists hit on the world's best get-rich scheme: uncover information leading to the arrest of Osama bin Laden and claim the $27 million reward being offered by the FBI.

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• Petnapped

  Across the nation, thousands of dog owners are becoming victims of the UK's latest crime wave: dog-napping. Their family pets are stolen from locked cars, secure gardens and even from their own houses, all for the sake of 50 quid down the pub, or in the most sinister cases, for ransoms that can run into thousands of pounds.

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• Siamese Survivors

  Hassan and Hussein Salee are two energetic 16-year-old boys from Hounslow. They were separated when they were only a few months old in a rare and unusual operation.

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• The Baby Maker

  Carole Horlock is 36 years old and runs a launderette in Hertfordshire. She has a partner and two children of her own and in two weeks time she will give birth to her eighth surrogate child: "Some people smoke because they enjoy it; some people eat because they enjoy it. I enjoy the whole process of being pregnant for somebody else. Why deny myself something I enjoy and I'm good at?"

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