'The Not Dead' on C4

[heighway]

Anyone watch this last night? I caught it just by chance -a powerful documentary about three British soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder, one who'd fought in Malaya, one in Bosnia and one in Iraq. Quite apart from their own harrowing stories what gave the film an extra charge was that poet Simon Armitage shaped those stories into moving poems which the men themselves -and one of their wives- then delivered to camera. Shocking how all the guys said they got feck all medical help for their condition. Some sobering stats in the porgramme as well, such as that some 300 Falklands vets have committed suicide, more than died in the actual war.

[JohnnyH]

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