Testimony review – a devastating exposé of the Irish church’s brutal Magdalene laundries

Tamara Ceaikovski

A searing documentary on the laundries sees a determined young human rights lawyer join survivors and campaigners in a fight for truth and accountability A searing documentary on the laundries sees a determined young human rights lawyer join survivors and campaigners in a fight for truth and accountability A t least 10,000 women and girls were imprisoned in Ireland’s Magdalene laundries, forced into unpaid labour and subject to cruelty and suffering. This documentary narrated by Imelda Staunton