A view from the childhood sickbed -the isolation and intensity of being left alone with your thoughts. Doris spent a year in bed in the 1940s watching life happen silently on the other side of the window.
Simon didn't speak to any other children for almost two years and checked his pulse every morning to confirm that he was still alive. Gerald lay awake in the early hours waiting for the first blackbird to sing. Their reflections are set against Jodie's experiences now - a sparky nine-year-old with grace and perception, living through a childhood of hospital appointments. Producers Sara Conkey , Hugh Levinson , Lindsay Leonard and Stephen Douds