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There has been an incredible reaction to ‘Beti and David: Lost for Words’, an hour-long film broadcast this week on BBC One Wales (and still available on the BBC iPlayer). Filmed over the course of many months, the film is a record of two people facing a terrible illness together. Since David’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s,
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“Seventy-five per cent of my life I can keep in a normal context. I have to confess that the 25 per cent is my bogey man… It’s the place where I don’t like to linger for long.” Those are the words of former Methodist minister Jim McWade, in this film made over the course of
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“There’s a resilience in Machynlleth which says Mark Bridger’s evil will not prevail. That the goodness of a little girl will endure. And that April Jones will always be remembered.” Tribute: ‘APRIL: A WALES THIS WEEK SPECIAL’
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A D-Day Commando, filter room girl and RAF evader feature in ‘Welsh Heroes of World War 2’ which is now available to watch on-line. The three programmes take Ted Owens, Eileen Younghusband and John Evans on emotional trips down memory lane to revisit their WW2 experiences. The series ends with RAF evader John Evans, who
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The Wales This Week special ‘The Bullseye Killer’ has won a British Academy Cymru Award (Bafta Cymru). The hour-long documentary won a Bafta in the Current Affairs category of the awards at the Wales Millennium Centre. The programme documented the crimes of John Cooper, one of the most notorious criminals in British history. Cooper burgled, raped and murdered
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When Wales This Week began filming with Hywel Jones there was a determination not to turn his story into a “misery film”. That determination came from Hywel himself. But the aim would not necessarily be easily achieved: Hywel was dying of cancer. He knew already that his condition was terminal. But he hoped that by
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Wales This Week‘s film ‘Living With Dementia’, which was broadcast on ITV Wales last year, has won a Guild of Health Writers’ Award for Best Broadcast Programme. The award was presented at the Royal Society of Medicine in Wimpole Street, London. The film followed Jim McWade, who suffers with Alzheimer’s Disease, and his wife Maureen, and
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“Seventy-five per cent of my life I can keep in a normal context. I have to confess that the 25 per cent is my bogey man… It’s the place where I don’t like to linger for long.” Those were the words of Jim McWade in a Wales This Week film called ‘Living With Dementia’ which
Greg Lewis 