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Black marks for Black Daisies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Brice Pitt reviews
Brice Pitt reviews*
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‘Black Daisies for the Bride’ by Tony Harrison; directed by Peter Symes; Screenplay, BBC2
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I've had difficulty in writing this review. I initially caught the last half of Tony Harrison's ‘docudrama’ about Alzheimer's disease shown at the outset of Alzheimer Awareness Week in July and hated it. My heart sank at the Brechtian device of putting the dialogue to the tune of a hymn (in this case the carol ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’), and I found the approach to the three ‘star’ patients chosen for the film from those in Whernside ward, High Royds Hospital, sentimental and patronising.

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Psychiatry and the media
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 11 , November 1993 , pp. 672 - 673
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