Pterry on BBC1 - update

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He is a guest on the ONE SHOW which is on BBC1 at 7:00pm TONIGHT Thursday 15th May in the UK.:)
 
Well, I watched it, and would've liked more of him featured... but it was cool to see him live. He mainly talked about Alzheimer's and the effect it has on him (such as missing things right in front of him, or struggling with his typing) and about celebrities publishing their autobiographies (since the interviewers asked him about his thoughts on that subject).

Seems that a lot of people don't agree with people like... er... I forget her name (some footballer's wife) writing their life stories. Makes me wonder how they can get so much money from the books, if no one likes them. I suppose some people enjoy gossip and celebrities. :rolleyes:

But... I think the interviewers preferred "real" authors, like Pratchett, over the ones who are only out to earn money! They have sense! :)



Anyway, interesting programme!
 
It just loaded as an inset in Opera. I wanted to hear pTerry talking more! Was good to see him anyway, even though they treated him as an introduction to the rest of their stories.
 
Do you mean it didn't work in Opera? Worked fine in mine, Joel. Try reloading the page if it doesn't work the first time. Sometimes things are weird like that. :)

And there's only 1 day left for viewing... :eek:

Oh, but I do know that if you upgraded your Adobe Flash player recently, the bug in it stopped Opera and Firefox users from viewing flash videos and Youtube vids. I had to re-install an older verion to fix it. :rolleyes: Silly Adobe!
 
Re: Pterry on BBC2, 4th and 11th Feb 09

pTerry is on the BBC again this Wednesday (4 Feb) and the following Wednesday, 11 Feb. It's a 2-part documentary on BBC2 (9-10pm), following him over several months as he tries to combine finding out more about his rare version of early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, with living his life, writing, attending the Discworld Convention 2008 (yaay - I was there!), and dealing with having a camera crew in his face all the time...

Should be good, I hope :)
 
Watched this, it was quite informative and also encouraging. Sometimes it takes a well known person catching a disease to really raise awareness of it.
 
Taped it and watched it last night. Well, I hope that with his positiveness and cheerfulness he will beat this awful disease. Having had a dear relative die from it just before Christmas I hope they find something to deal with it soon. As they said on the programme - the amount of aged people is growing and unless they can find a cure for it soon there will be so much more of it about it will cause a much bigger problem than it does at the moment.

Well, I'm rooting for you Terry - I hope you beat it!
 
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