A short Stay in Switzerland
5 February 2009
Blog
Julie Walters starred in a one-off drama on BBC One on 25 January, inspired by the true story of Dr Anne Turner, who in 2006 took her own life in a Zurich clinic having developed an incurable degenerative disease. It's a cliched beginning. Moving, moody, pity-inducing music. Man in wheelchair, eyes sad. Immobility. Comments fly - he's suffering, he's 'reduced to this'. This is Dr Anne Turner's husband. He dies after the first 5 minutes of some 'neurological' issue. When Anne gets PSP, we're...