Fight Cancer Explained

Genre:Documentary
Director:Richard Trayler-Smith
Presenter:Martyn Lewis
Lynne Perrie
Starring:Russ Conway
Barbara Kelly
Diane Moran
Producer:Sarah Brewster
Language:English
Country:United kingdom
Camera:Ashley Rowe
Num Series:1
Num Episodes:6
Company:Prospect Pictures for BBC TV
Network:BBC1

Fight Cancer is 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. Web site: BFI Film & TV Database: Fight Cancer . https://web.archive.org/web/20090206123650/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/431812 . dead . 2009-02-06 . 2013-02-21 . British Film Institute.
  2. Web site: Lynne Perrie - Obituaries - News - The Independent . https://web.archive.org/web/20131216080205/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lynne-perrie-471650.html . dead . 16 December 2013 . 2013-02-21 . Hayward . Anthony . 2006-03-27 . . 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. Web site: BBC Genome: Fight Cancer . 12 October 1989 . 2015-01-30 . British Film Institute.