Cathy Come Home (played by Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks), and their descent into poverty and homelessness. At the start of the film, Cathy leaves her parents' overcrowded rural home and hitchhikes to the city, where she finds work and meets Reg, a well-paid lorry driver. They fall in love, marry, and rent a modern flat in a building that does not allow children. Cathy soon becomes pregnant and must stop working, and Reg is injured on the job and becomes unemployed. The loss of income and birth of the baby force them to leave their flat, and they are unable to
Cathy Drennan Cathy Drennan Catherine (Cathy) Drennan is a Professor of Chemistry and Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Drennan grew up in New York with her parents (a medical doctor and anthropologist). She received an Bachelors in Chemistry from Vassar College, working in the laboratory of Professor Miriam Ross. After college, Drennan spent time as high school science and drama teacher, in a quaker run school in Iowa. She received her PhD in biological chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1995, working in the laboratory of the late Professor Martha L Ludwig "Crystallographic