Jaqueline Wilson's children's book, Dustbin Baby, has been made into a BBC1 family drama to be shown at Christmas time. It stars Juliet Stevenson, Dakota Blue Richards and David Haig. [via BBC Press Office]
The heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting story follows a young teenager called April whose troubled life began in a dustbin – a new-born baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted but discarded and left like so much rubbish in an industrial bin behind a pizza parlour.
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