Well, did you see it? Our story was on telly. Well part of the story.....
This morning at 9.15am BBC TV launched new series on a Hundred Years of Britain - and we were there! I saw a photo of myself on the balcony with Miss White the teacher and so many of those that were in our book.
The star of this section, which lasted about ten minutes, was Barbara Pye one of the first people ever to be given stretomycin . She made a miracle cure and was home within 12 weeks.
Why Barbara? well this is how history is made: the researcher Nick Adey rang me and we talked at length about the subject. It was clear he was looking for a "happy angle". When I mentioned that there was an awful lot of dark stuff he said that it was daytime television and they didnt want to upset the viewers.
I mentioned Barbara Pye knowing she ticked all the tv boxes : glamorous, articulate, confident and with a good story and a happy ending.
And Barbara performed brilliantly sitting there between Michael Aspinall and Robert Winston in the BBC TV London studios.
I loved the way the BBC had reconstructed Dr Hubbard giving injections.
Valerie Brent also featured in the programme as one of only a couple of nurses still be alive who had worked at Craig-y-nos.
Nurse Glen is publicity shy or she would have been the ideal candidate having worked there for over 30 years.
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I was very interested to watch this program today as my father was in a Sanitorium (Tal Garth)in South Wales in the late 40s early 50s..... I was looking to see which San this was filmed in!.Would have been good to see what that was like as I was only very young when taken to visit!
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