In 1973, when she was 28, Jacqueline du Pr6, the world-famous cellist, was told she had multiple sclerosis. In this programme she describes her career and her fight to come to terms with the disease that brought it to an.end.
With the voices of her husband, Daniel Barenboim ; her teacher. William Pleeth ; her consultant neurologist; and her old friend, Sir John Barbirolli , Narrator MICHAEL OLIVER
Compiled and produced by PATRICIA BRENT (First broadcast in October 1976)
A perceptive balance between the appalling waste of talent, the horrors of the illness and the radiant hope of its patient.
(GUARDIAN)