
Born Asleep
Roughly 3,000 babies are stillborn in the UK every year, a rate worse than most other developed nations manage. Reporter Paul Kenyon sets out to find why, sitting down with clinicians who argue that many of these deaths are preventable using interventions that are neither complicated nor costly, from closer monitoring of fetal movement to better tracking of growth in the final weeks of pregnancy. Their frustration is with adoption, not evidence: hospitals across the country apply these measures unevenly, and Kenyon presses staff and administrators on why proven methods used routinely in some units are absent in others. The film treats stillbirth as a systems failure as much as a medical one, asking what it would take for a known fix to actually reach every maternity ward. Kenyon's interviews carry the weight here, letting clinicians lay out the case for change in their own words rather than through statistics alone.