“The One Show” BBC Television – and “The Children of Craig-y-nos” book
Well, it’s over – my one minute of fame on the “One Show” talking about my childhood experiences of four years locked up in a remote Welsh castle, converted into a children’s TB sanatorium.
I wrote a book about it “The Children of Craig-y-nos” – hence the media interest.
My companion, Pamela Hamer, who was there in the sanatorium at the same time as a 8 year old was totally unfazed by live television – the six million viewers and the clutch of celebrities in the audience waiting their turn on the green sofa ( Angela Rippon, the Spandeau Ballet pop group and comedian Paul O’Grady).
She was determined to tell her rat story : how she woke up one night to find a rat scurrying through her bed and the night orderly consoled her by telling her it was Joey, the pet rat from the kitchen come to say good-night to her. Pamela was encased in a plaster cast unable to move.
