Baby Barter

Herbert Smith, the ‘Handcuff King’, and his girlfriend, Lottie Roberts, are circus performers who secretly buy and sell babies for profit in Edwardian Britain. But they’ll need more than a disappearing act to fight the families who come after them.

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Presenter: Rima Ahmed
Reporter: Richard Tisdale
Produced by Luke de Costa
Researcher: Bethan Davies
Social Media: Fede Marilotti
Online Producer: Lee Macaulay
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin