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Fight Cancer
GenreDocumentary
Directed byRichard Trayler-Smith
Presented byMartyn Lewis
Lynne Perrie
StarringRuss Conway
Barbara Kelly
Diane Moran
Country of originUnited kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerSarah Brewster
Camera setupAshley Rowe
Production companyProspect Pictures for BBC TV
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release12 October (1989-10-12) –
23 November 1989 (1989-11-23)

Fight Cancer was 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. ^ "BFI Film & TV Database: Fight Cancer". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  2. ^ Hayward, Anthony (27 March 2006). "Lynne Perrie - Obituaries - News - The Independent". The Independent. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2013. 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. ^ "BBC Genome: Fight Cancer". British Film Institute. Retrieved 30 January 2015.