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Spoonface Steinberg: Directed by Betsan Morris Evans. With Linda Bassett, Ella Jones, Helen McCrory, Becky Simpson. An autistic girl comes to terms with the fact she's dying of Cancer.
- (25)
- Drama
- Betsan Morris Evans
- 1998-02
Mar 30, 1998 · Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
Superb programme. chriswebster-8 17 August 2007. If you haven't heard this on radio/audio or seen it - DO IT NOW. It is beautiful, thoughtful, sensitive treatment of a very difficult situation. Whatever it costs you to get hold of a copy, its worth it.
Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
An autistic girl comes to terms with the fact she's dying of Cancer. Spoonface was different, even before the cancer. Now after her parents have split up and her mother has a drink problem, her hospital consultant introduces her to opera.
Not only is Spoonface autistic, she has a killing cancer against which radiotherapy and chemotherapy don’t seem to be winning. That, it is suddenly clear, is why she has the scarlet hair: a wig to cover her hair loss. She is clear-headed about the doctors’ negative prognosis.
Mar 30, 1998 · Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
