A series of ten programmes that takes life as the microphone finds it.
8: A View from the Bed
Even a brief stay in hospital is a worry, especially if it's the first time 'inside'. Illness has to be confronted with unknown faces, uniforms, and an unfamiliar routine. But a hospital ward is also a close community. Relationships build quickly, problems are shared and intimacies are soon exchanged. After 24 hours the outside world retreats.
In the Hospital for Women, in Soho, London, the patients all have 'women's troubles' - but the treatment isn't the only thing to affect those who come to stay....
Producer SHARON BANOFF Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)