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Where Youth Grows Pale

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In the years following the Second World War, a diagnosis of TB was often fatal. Survival inevitably meant years of rest and recovery in a sanatorium, but even then, the stigma of 'the white plague" remained. Author Alan Sillitoe, scriptwriters Galton and Simpson and actor Mark Eden recall how it felt to be "the lepers of our time". Interviewer Diana Eden.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Sillitoe
Unknown:
Mark Eden
Interviewer:
Diana Eden.
Producer:
Fiona Couper

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