Steve Jones show

Title

Steve Jones show

Genre

Interview

TX Date

30 Mar 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:08:14

Description

Steve Jones interviews Gurmeet Kasba, who spent ten years in an institution for sufferers of muscular dystrophy, but left in 1980 and set about pursuing a writing career. A film entitled, Raspberry Ripple, loosely based on Gurmeet’s lost years, as he calls them, is being shown by BBC1. It stars Hollywood actress Faye Dunaway. In two parts.

Contributors

Steve Jones; Gurmeet Kasba

Keywords

Actors; Writers; Television; Playwrights; Drama; BBC; Disabled persons; Gurmeet Kasba; Muscular dystrophy; Faye Dunaway; Raspberry Ripple

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