Learning on ScreenCan we Afford the Doctor?
- Synopsis
- An entertainment in music hall style that looks at memories of health care before there was a health service. Records the research, writing, rehearsal and performance by the Age Exchange Theatre Company in London, and in doing so reveals the potential of oral history and the value of the memories of the elderly people.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 75 min.
- Year of production
- 1986
- Availability
- Sale
- Uses
- Visual communications, drama courses. Modern British history, social history, sociology - any level. Its oral history reminiscencences could be useful to anyone beginning an oral history project.*
- Subjects
- History; Sociology
- Keywords
- health services; old people; oral history; reminiscence therapy
Credits
- Director
- Marilyn Wheatcroft
- Producer
- Sharon Goulds
- Writer
- Joyce Holliday
- Contributor
- Roma Barnes
Production Company
- Name
Television History Workshop
- Phone
- 020 7405 6627
- Fax
- 020 7242 1426
- Address
- LONDON
WC1N 3AJ
Distributor
- Name
Television History Centre
- Phone
- 020 7405 6627
- Fax
- 020 7242 1426
- Address
- 42 Queen Square
LONDON
WC1N 3AJ
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