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Storyville

Survivors

Episode 3: Survivors: Lust for Life

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Heather Leach was a cheeky flame-haired documentary director living life to the full - maybe too full! But at the age of 30 she was suddenly diagnosed with a thyroid disease and then cancer. As part of Storyville's Survivors season, Lust For Life follows her battle with ill-health, despair and depression and her emergence to find a new way to live a cheekier and more fulfilling life. Show less

Contributors

Series Editor:
Nick Fraser
Director:
Heather Leach

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