Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimers

World-renowned author Terry Pratchett is facing an uncertain future. Despite selling over 55 million books worldwide and with his work translated into 33 different languages, he is an author who may one day live in a world without words. Terry has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Every 14 minutes someone in Britain is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s – and the best-selling writer of the Discworld series is now one of them.

This programme follows Terry coming to terms with his diagnosis, living with his condition, facing the certainty of its conclusion and his mission to find a cure. Adamant that he has “done nothing wrong” and that Alzheimer’s sufferers should not be stigmatised, this is a genuine personal journey of one man, through the science and the reality of what it’s like to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.