Terry Pratchett (redux)

[desperance]

Sorry, that last public-information moment was a little rushed: to be more clear, Terry was being interviewed by John Humphrys for "On The Ropes", talking a little about the writing and a lot about the Alzheimer's; you should be able to pick it up any time in the next week, from this page.

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[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with TP but there was an item about Alzheimer's on BBC News this morning. "My Mom and Me" is a documentary film about a grandma with alzheimers...

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

This link, direct to the On the Ropes page, saves you one hop in the web.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

I understand he was on 'The One Show' on BBC1 on Friday (or was it Monday) Available now at BBC iPlayer.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the notice, I managed to catch all of it live.

He raises an interesting point about us having a concept of "just being old" - and that his early-onset Alzheimer's might have just been written off as this. I guess as we learn more about ageing, everything will end up attributed to an specific illness, and we might end up without that concept.