Watkins and Francis raise sepsis awareness after daughter`s death

Actor Jason Watkins and his wife Clara Francis say they hope a documentary about the death of their daughter will help other families who are grieving, and raise awareness of sepsis.

The ITV film tells the emotional story of Maude, who died of the condition when she was two-and-a-half in 2011. Watkins told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme their documentary was part of "trying to make things better".

The show, titled Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maudie, airs later. Francis told Radio 4: "I didn't know other people who had lost children and it is unusual for a person to lose a child.

"By making the documentary, my objective, or one of our objectives, was to talk about that feeling and to hopefully, if anyone is watching it, make them go, 'Oh God, I'm not going mad because that's how I feel.'"

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