Ann Shaw and Pamela Hamer with presenters Alex Jones and Matt Baker
Well, it s over – all of 30
seconds on live television talking about Craig-y-nos, the children’s TB sanatorium in
Wales.
Some of my friends said I
look nervous and uncomfortable. Well ,who wouldn’t on prime-time television
with 5 million viewers and an audience including a clutch of celebrities and
you are expected to talk about dark secrets from your four years spent locked
up in a remote castle all in the name of a cure for a disease which folk were
terrified of?
Pamela Hamer, the other
ex-patient with me on the show was totally unfazed by television – and
determined to have her say.
Pamela told her rat story in – she woke up one night to find a
rat in her bed and the night nurse comforted her when she screamed by telling
her it was Joey the pet rat from the kitchen just come to say good night to
her.
She was 8 years of age and
encased in plaster only able to move her arms.
It was a blog that I started
in 2006 in my search for the “lost children of Craig-y-nos” that eventually
unearthed all these amazing stories and gave a collective voice to 40 years of
missing Welsh history.
I just managed to get a plug
in for the book The Children of Craig-y-nos .
Behind the scenes:
I am sitting in Make up
getting the most amazing stuff put on my face when Angela Rippon comes in and
sits in the chair next to me - in a similar pink jacket to what I’m wearing!
OMG!
After the show Pamela Hamer and
our partners go to a quiet, small Italian restaurant in Earls court.
The folk at the next table
lean over.
“We saw you on telly
tonight!”
I reckon it’s the pink
jacket.
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