Horizon · SEASON 12
A Time to Be Born
Episode 2 · 1975-01-27

- Documentary
Episode overview
Investigates the growing tendency in hospitals to induce childbirth by injecting hormones into mothers. The practice has become increasingly widespread in recent years, and this film asks if induction is desirable, necessary, and safe.
50 minutes
Season 12 episodes
1. The Killer Dust1975-01-20
2. A Time to Be Born1975-01-27
3. The Unsafe Sea1975-02-10
4. The Change of Life1975-02-17
5. Project Fido1975-02-24
6. The Planets1975-03-10
7. The Long, Long Walkabout1975-04-07
8. The Overworked Miracle1975-04-14
9. Not the Cheapest, But the Best1975-04-21
10. A Spoonful of Roughage1975-04-28
11. Brain Poison1975-05-05
12. The Bulldog's Last Bark?1975-05-12
13. Benjamin1975-05-19
14. The McMaster Experiment1975-06-02
15. The Glazed Outlook1975-06-09
16. The Three Chord Trick1975-06-16
17. The Cleanest Place in the World1975-06-23
18. Strange Sleep1975-06-30
19. The Greatest Advance Since the Wheel?1975-07-07
20. How Do You Read?1975-07-14
21. The Sickly Sea1975-07-21
22. Happy Catastrophe1975-07-28
23. To Die, to Live - The Survivors of Hiroshima1975-08-04
24. Cannabis1975-08-11
25. Meditation and the Mind1975-08-18
26. The Trobriand Experiment1975-12-29