On the 20 March last year Bronwen Vickers, husband Paul and two children 4-year-old Hannah and 13-day-old Harriet went shopping in Warrington. As they left Boots, an IRA bomb exploded, severely injuring Bronwen.
Peter Gordon's specially extended film is the first of two within this series which give personal accounts of women facing life-changing circumstances. It tells the extraordinary story of one family's courage and pain during the year after the Warrington bomb. Although Bronwen lost a leg, she says she is not bitter about the perpetrators. She is even able to make a joke about her missing foot: "would have liked to say goodbye to it."
But she does have strong views on the problem in Northern Ireland: "It's anger and bitterness and revenge that have brought this about, and it's a futile exercise ... it won't change anything."
Sadly, Bronwen and her family had more problems to face during the year. "It's s not fair," says Paul. "But life isn't fair. You soon realise that."
Series editor Paul Watson