I think this will be emotional but worth watching______MALCOLM & BARBARA: LOVE'S FAREWELL______ALZHEIMER'S__________ITV1_____9.00__

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TONIGHT

I have seen Barbara on TV talking about it and although it will be emotional I think it will be deffo worth watching

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Documentary
Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell Wednesday 08 August
9:00pm - 10:30pm
ITV1 London
No-one who saw Paul Watson's 1999 film Malcolm and Barbara: a Love Story, will ever forget it. Malcolm Pointon was a rakishly handsome, charming, outgoing and talented musician until he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease at the age of 51. His wife Barbara devoted herself to her husband's care, watching this once gentle man become a muttering, shuffling, sometimes violent stranger. In Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell, Malcolm dies, surrounded by his family. "Do you want to fi lm the bitter end, Paul?" asks Barbara of the fi lm-maker who is now a close friend. As his life fades, Malcolm is tiny, bony, shrunken and painfully frail. Death, when it comes, is barely a whisper. Even though this was not my tragedy, so perhaps it was a self-indulgence, I cried and cried. For Malcolm and, of course, for Barbara - stoic, angry, magnificent Barbara. If I see a better documentary this year, I'll be very surprised.

RT reviewer - Alison Graham
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She was my music tutor when I did a primary PGCE. She was very inspiring and talked about her husband quite a bit.

Will try and watch (DS and DD permitting ).

Is this the programme that caused an uproar with a fake dyeing scene? Not that it makes an difference to the message they want to get across.

I think it is the programme that has had coverage over the dying scene.

Yes but it doesn't say that he dies during the film

It has a still shot of him - to signify his dying but she does not want that to be the point of the documentary

sorry I haven't put that very well

Idris she seemed inspirational when I heard her talk during interviews

Looking forward to this tonight(although agree it will be sad) as I work for a Day Centre giving respite to dementia sufferers.Although I look after them on a day to day basis,I don't see the full picture and how they are at home.This will give me a better insight to how the illness affects the carers and their families.

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I saw an ad for it......and it made me cry

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saw the first one. But in the meantime my MIL developed Alzheimers and vascular dementia, and died last year a completely unrecognisable person. Agree, it will be worth watching, but not sure I or my DH could bring ourselves to. Puts some of our minor niggles with our partners in perspective, I should think.

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I don't think I can bear to watch it - it looks heart breaking

GDG I know what you mean but I still think it will be worth watching

about to start

I'm watching, it's making me cry though