Gale was beautiful, intelligent and - according to everyone who knew her-had much to offer; everything to live for. Recently, aged 19 and a drug addict, she was found dead in the basement of a derelict house in Chelsea.Harold Williamson and a Man Alive team first met her when making a programme about people who had been brought up in children's homes. What was apparent, even then, was her total loss of hope, her disbelief in any future. Now, the people who were in her life and who cared for her in and out of various institutions ask: need she have died? Director JENNY BARRACLOUGH Edited by DESMOND WILCOX and BILL MORTON The programme will be hard to forget because it was quiet, tactful, and more concerned with what actually happens when good intentions become desperate failures than with making a case Henry Raynor THE TIMES .. Gale's death must have shaken and angered all who saw it Nancy Banks-Smith GUARDIAN It was harrowing, fair-minded, responsible, tactful, and avoided easy answers and fake indignation George Melly OBSERVER
