Kirsty's Millions Eight year old Kirsty Howard has an inoperable heart condition, which doctors predicted would kill her in early childhood. Instead she has become a celebrity who stole the nation's heart when - clutching David Beckham's hand - she presented the baton to the Queen at the Commonwealth Games. She's the figurehead for the campaign to raise £5 million to secure the future of a children's hospice in Manchester.

This film follows her and other families supported by Francis House into an unexpectedly joyful world full of laughter, where the nearness of death means that life must be lived to the full. Tx 12th December 2004 BBC1 60'

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