Feral Children

[TightEnd]

IMHO a lot of television these days is poor, lowest common denominator stuff that does not appeal to me

However there are exceptions


I have a friend who works for the production company that made a programme that shows on Channel 4 tonight at 10pm

"Feral Children"


I am told this is a remarkable and sad programme. My friend is very proud of his work on this programme

It centres on a 23 year old Ukrainian lady who was abandoned as a child and brought up by a pack of dogs on a rundown farm.

Now returned to a "human" existence she is one of only 100 known feral children in the world. Institutionalised and with no prospect of a return to a "normal" life she even now occasional reverts to animal behaviour

Her story is one of official neglect and is a complicated study of what happens to a child if he/she is denied the opportunity to grow up and develop as we all did.

Not likely to be easy watching, but likely to fascinating stuff.

[mikkyT]

Is this a repeat? I recall something similar where the girl cannot walk correctly, and even after being taught often reverts to walking on all fours

[Trace]

I saw this advertised Tighty, but I dont think I could watch it, it would upset me too much.

[TightEnd]

The programme is an update of the original that was first broadcast two years ago in the year 1PB

PB? Pre blonde, when I still watched telly!

[matt674]

ahhh, spending your childhood being brought up by animals - those were the days...............

[yt]

The other 99 ferals must be living in Harlow, wearing hoodies and grunting when you walk past them.


seriously I was planning on watching this it looks facinating.

[Heid]

The firt one was very interesting, it wil be interesting to see if she has progressed.

[Graham C]

That was an interesting program, cheers for pointing me in the direction of it.

[bolt pp]

I watched a great documentary involving Darcus howe and his son on channel 4 the other night.

Ive watched a couple of documentaries he's made before and read some of his stuff and found it all to be accessibly enlightening.

This was hard to watch though; although the idea for the program was to document him and his sons detached relationship and there endeavour to re-cement it(which was really quite good) there was something far more "entertaining" in the loosest possible sense, to watch.

Darcus seems to have become a complete alcoholic, i mean really gone at the game.

the documentary was filmed over a six month period and although it was never directly eluded to by the commentator/producer he spent the entirety of time slaughtered, incoherently babbling about the ideology of the civilrights movement with absolutely no applicability.

He couldn't even walk in a straight line and i thought it sad that such an articulate, learned, social commentator of the past 40 years could have allowed himself to be seen in such a light.