Fight Cancer

Fight Cancer was a 6 part health series challenging the negative attitudes that surround cancer. [1] 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. [2]

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. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "BFI Film & TV Database: Fight Cancer". British Film Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
  2. ↑ Hayward, Anthony (2006-03-27). "Lynne Perrie - Obituaries - News - The Independent". The Independent. Retrieved 2013-02-21. Thirteen years after undergoing two operations for cervical cancer, she co-presented a health programme, Fight Cancer (1989), with the newscaster Martyn Lewis, in which she travelled around Britain talking to other survivors.
  3. ↑ "BBC Genome: Fight Cancer". British Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-01-30.
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