Horizon: Spina Bifida & Me

BBC TWO, 9.00PM

 Actress Ruth Madeley heads up a very personal edition of the long-running science strand, investigating spina bifida, a condition that left her partially paralysed from birth. Here, Madeley learns how the spinal defect develops in the womb, how one Lord is campaigning for a preventative law and more about the pioneering surgery that is now offered to diagnosed babies. TD