LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Family reaction to euthanasia documentary

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Aug 1977

Year of production

1977

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Duration

00:04:35

Description

Interview with Robin McShane, son of Yolande McShane, who assisted her mother Edith Mott, in an assisted suicide attempt at a nursing home in Burgess Hill, Sussex. He refers to a Yorkshire Television documentary which featured his mother and grandmother discussing the suicide attempt and was used as police evidence in the conviction of Mrs McShane. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Steve Harvey).

Contributors

Steve Harvey; Robin McShane

Keywords

Suicide; Crime; Police; Homicide; Television programmes; Euthanasia; Television documentaries; IBA; Yolande McShane; Edith Mott; Assisted suicide; Robin McShane

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