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15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century: Stannington

Sian Phillips

Jennifer Carss

Cole Wealleans-Watts

Angela Lonsdale

Karen Traynor

Marjorie Wilson

Margaret Wilkinson

Nadia Molinari

15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century: Stannington: Episode 1

Writing the Century: Stannington

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Suffering from TB, 12-year-old Alan is admitted to Stannington Sanatorium.

Suffering from TB, 12-year-old Alan is admitted to Stannington Sanatorium to join his brother Ken.

Writing the Century, the series that explores the twentieth century through the words and experiences of real people. 

In 1950 at the age of 17, Marjorie Wilson was a student nurse caring for children with tuberculosis at Stannington Children's Sanatorium in Morpeth, Northumberland. The drama is based on her interviews and freely adapted by Margaret Wilkinson. 

Suffering from TB, twelve year old Alan is admitted to Stannington Sanatorium to join his bother Ken.

Directed by Nadia Molinari.

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Drama inspired by TB nurse Marjorie Wilson's interviews about 1950s Stannington Sanatorium

Margaret Wilkinson's drama is inspired by TB nurse Marjorie Wilson's interviews about 1950s Stannington Sanatorium.

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