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The grisly truth about children's cartoons

17 December 2014

A study led by Dr James Kirkbride (UCL Psychiatry) and University of Ottawa, Canada has found that the main characters in cartoons for children are more than twice as likely to be killed off as those in films for adults. Read: Telegraph, More: Daily Mail, Guardian, Independent, Belfast Telegraph, Yorkshire Post, Herald Scotland, Press and Journal, Courier, Globe and Mail, Radio Times, UCL News, Listen: BBC London 94.9 'Breakfast' (from 1 hour), More: BBC 5 live '5 live Drive' (from 1 hour 56 mins)