Look back in hope
- Title
- Look back in hope
- Genre
- Interview; Documentary; Poetry
- TX Date
- 1 Jan 1982
- Year of production
- 1981
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- Duration
- 00:49:01
- Description
- Look Back In Hope, presented by Lawrence Spicer. A programme about the International Year of Disabled Persons, organised by the United Nations. Bob Holness reads a poem about disability by Roger McGough and interviews campaign president Lord Snowdon (Antony Armstrong-Jones). Lawrence Spicer interviews campaign workers Keith Howe and Carolyn Keane; writer and mouth painter Christine Smith, who suffers from muscular dystrophy; Dr Wendy Greengrass, who works for disabled charity SPOD; Jenny, who suffers from multiple sclerosis; pupils of St Paul’s Girls’ School, London. In four parts, divided by breaks in audio.
- Contributors
- Bob Holness; Lawrence Spicer; Antony Armstrong-Jones; Keith Howes; Carolyn Keane; Christine Smith; Wendy Greengrass
- Keywords
- Books; Authors; UN; Discrimination; Disabilities; Painters; Muscular dystrophy; Attitudes; Multiple sclerosis; Prejudice; Roger McGough; Wheelchairs; Neuromuscular diseases
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