We are all familiar with the tabloid notion of the “triumph over tragedy”, a label some might have applied to the subject of this documentary (13 October). What was apparent, though, was that Brett Nielsen, a survivor of the Thalidomide catastrophe, does not think of himself as tragic. He just gets on with it.Fifty years ago, the film-maker Roger Graef made a programme featuring four-year-old Brett, an Australian boy who had come to England to have artificial arms fitted to the vestigial limbs that Thalidomide, a morning sickness drug, gave him. In this week’s film, Graef went to Australia to observe Brett’s subsequent progress, movingly weaving together the old black-and-white footage and new interviews.Brett has been busy. Aside from pursuing an idiosyncratic but