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19/06/2017

Back to Life

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All Nick wants is his life back after a car accident leaves him with a brain injury.

Series documenting the untold dramas of 21st-century Britain. This is one young man's story - a story of grit, determination, ambition and limitations, love and acceptance.

This is Nick's story; and it's a story of grit and determination; of ambition and limitations; of one young man's struggle to get his life back, after a car accident that's left him with a brain injury. 

Nick was 23 when his life changed forever. He's lucky to be alive. He was driving home late one night when his car came off the road. He thinks he fell asleep at the wheel. Luckily no one else was involved, but the consequences for Nick and his family have been immense. He was in hospital for months. At first Nick was wheelchair bound. Slowly, slowly, he's getting his independence back. He's now up and about - walking and talking and cracking jokes, but his injuries were serious - apart from the ones to his body, his brain injury means his short term memory is impaired.

Before the accident, Nick was a bar manager, and independence for him means getting back his old job. That's what keeps him going. But will he manage it? 

From brain injury rehab unit, to sheltered accommodation and then back to living with his mum, his greatest champion - he's a man on a mission: to get his life back. But the road of progress is long and winding and Nick is impatient.

Produced in Bristol, by Jo Dwyer.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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A series documenting the untold dramas of 21st-century Britain.

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