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Like Other People

Margaret and Willy have helped to make a film about love - their own story. They made it for the sake of others like themselves - spastics. Intelligent, but handicapped. Sensitive, but misunderstood. Spastics like Margaret and Willy believe they have a right to challenge the rest of us to recognise their emotional needs. They claim the right to love like others do. Are we in danger of allowing handicapped people fewer rights than the rest of us? The story of Margaret and Willy is moving. It may also cause controversy and upset some people. Margaret and Willy know it and believe, with other spastics, that the time has come to do just that. It is easy to see why they love each other. But can they be helped to live with that love, or is it too much for them - and others like them - to hope for? The film raises difficult issues. In the studio those most involved discuss, with Desmond Wilcox, a problem that few people may previously have recognised - but hardly any of us now dare to ignore.

English
  • Originally Aired June 21, 1972
  • Network BBC Two
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