Love, Loss & Life: Real Stories from the AIDS Pandemic: Jonathan Blake
11/27/23 • 12 min
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Actor Jonathan Blake describes the excitement of his youth when he first encountererd the gay scene in London and San Francisco. His story is both delicious and dangerous and life was joyful. He tells how he had to rally against ‘a terrifying disease’ and the world stopped. Jonathan reveals how the impact changed his behaviours, but his humour and exuberant love of life continues.
This podcast series features stories taken from our first book, a collection of essays, reflections, and testimonies also entitled ‘Love, Loss & Life’ which you can buy here.
An audiobook is also available here.
Visit the National HIV Story Trust website
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Actor Jonathan Blake describes the excitement of his youth when he first encountererd the gay scene in London and San Francisco. His story is both delicious and dangerous and life was joyful. He tells how he had to rally against ‘a terrifying disease’ and the world stopped. Jonathan reveals how the impact changed his behaviours, but his humour and exuberant love of life continues.
This podcast series features stories taken from our first book, a collection of essays, reflections, and testimonies also entitled ‘Love, Loss & Life’ which you can buy here.
An audiobook is also available here.
Visit the National HIV Story Trust website
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Love, Loss & Life: Real Stories from the AIDS Pandemic: Flick Thorley
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In the early years of the AIDS pandemic, the focus was on the physical needs of people with the illness. But by the 1990s it was becoming clear that people with AIDS could also become acutely psychiatrically unwell, often as a result of the illness attacking the brain, and that the NHS didn’t have the facilities to cope with this aspect of the condition. Flick Thorley recalls the pioneering work she was involved with at that time which helped remedy the situation, and the care given by the London Lighthouse.
This podcast series features stories taken from our first book, a collection of essays, reflections, and testimonies also entitled ‘Love, Loss & Life’ which you can buy here.
An audiobook is also available here.
Visit the National HIV Story Trust website
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Love, Loss & Life: Real Stories from the AIDS Pandemic: Barbara von Barsewisch
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Barbara von Barsewisch trained as a nurse in London in the early 1990s and worked on Broderip Ward, the HIV ward at the Middlesex Hospital, for ten years. She went on to work at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in the Kobler Day Care Unit, where she developed an expertise in caring for patients with AIDS-related cancers, especially lymphomas. Caring for patients with AIDS in the 1990s was a nursing experience unlike any other. It was a time when the rule book went out of the window and some extraordinary and moving interactions between nursing staff and patients helped to ease the passing of many of the people in Barbara’s care.
This podcast series features stories taken from our first book, a collection of essays, reflections, and testimonies also entitled ‘Love, Loss & Life’ which you can buy here.
An audiobook is also available here.
Visit the National HIV Story Trust website
Love, Loss & Life: Real Stories From The AIDS Pandemic - Love, Loss & Life: Real Stories from the AIDS Pandemic: Jonathan Blake
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'Love, Loss and Life' - Real Stories from the AIDS pandemic.
This is Jonathan Blake's story read by Christopher Ashman with an introduction by Anita Dobson.
Born in 1949, Jonathan Blake went to Rose Bruford drama school, worked in theatre during the 1970s and later became a costume designer with English National Opera, after being diagnosed HIV positive in 1982. Jonathan in 'Pride' was based on him, a fil
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