Fight Cancer (1989)
- Genre
- documentary television program
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A six-part series where a newscaster and a cancer survivor travel around the UK talking to people who beat cancer. The show challenges negative attitudes about the disease by sharing personal stories of hope and recovery from survivors and celebrities.
educationalhopefulinspirationalintimatepositivecalmsupportivereflective
What happens
Fight Cancer is a 6-part health series challenging the negative attitudes that surround cancer. It was transmitted on BBC1 in 1989 and was presented by newscaster Martyn Lewis and actress Lynne Perrie, a cancer survivor. Perrie and Lewis travelled around Britain talking to other survivors. The first episode was broadcast on BBC One on 12 October 1989, and in it, celebrities Russ Conway, Barbara Kelly and Diane Moran described their battles with cancer and their hopes for the future. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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