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Tonight, celebrating Sillitoe. We are at Nottingham Contemporary on | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
the trail of one of the city's most famous writers. Also coming up: | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
Paying the price for a medicine mix-up. He thought it was his | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
medication and within a couple of days it had killed him. | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
Plus the sickening attacks on the best of man's best friends. People | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
have to be responsible. If their dog air attacks and assistance dog, | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
they are taking a way that person's freedom. And the voice of the | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
people. Sillitoe's story is on. hope we have taken a book and have | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
been able to show lots of different ways you can imagine that book. It | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
is really important people realise richer -- literature can be a way | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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When researchers here in Nottingham started looking into prescriptions | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
written by family doctors, they found that one in 20 contained an | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
error. While most turned out to be minor, occasionally those errors | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
can be life-threatening. We explore the human consequences of medicine | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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Modern medicines save lives and we trust our GPs and pharmacists to | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
get it right, but picking up your prescription can be a gamble. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
It was terrible. I really felt ale when I realised that the chemist | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
had made a blunder. He took it thinking he was his medication and | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
after a couple of days, it had killed him. It in England, we get | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
through 2.5 million prescriptions a day, more than 900 million a year. | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
That is billions and billions of pills. But you only have to browse | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
your local papers to seek the scores of stories about minor mix- | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
ups. There are some much more serious cases. For two years, | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Harold Moody's family from Lincolnshire have been fighting for | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
answers. Now for the first time since his father's death, Philip | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
has agreed to talk on camera. He wants to highlight the problem of | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
medicine mix-ups in our hospitals. He went into ANA -- Accident and | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Emergency, was kept overnight and came home with somebody else's | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
medication, two bottles of methadone. He took that over the | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
weekend, thinking it was his medication, and that was it. Have | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
you any idea how that methadone got mixed up with your father's | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
medication. It had come from the hospital and had originally been | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
prescribed for the person in the next threat to him. How my father | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
has actually finished up with it, nobody is really clear. You just | :03:36. | :03:44. | |
could not make it up. It sounds so far-fetched. In hospital where they | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
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are supposed to be trained professionals. It is tragic. You do | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
not always check your medication. You expect, or I thought, as they | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
had sent him home from hospital, the nurses had given the ambulance | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
people his back and everything, so I've would have thought that at the | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
age of 81 they would do it for him. So it is a tragic situation how it | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
has turned out. It is still unclear how the mephedrone became mixed in | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
with Harold's medication but the coroner reported the hospital | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
should have stored the drugs securely, as was their policy. So | :04:31. | :04:40. | |
the family fights for answers. Medicine mix-ups of this magnitude | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
are thankfully rare but how common are minor errors? We put this | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
question to the NHS. It is almost impossible to measure every mix-up | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
in medicine, so we focused on prescribing. Our findings BA | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
identified more than 1,200 incidents across England in 2011, | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
more than half in hospitals. More than a third happened in the | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
community pharmacies. The rest were in places like GP surgeries and | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
community nursing. Most were minor errors. 63 caused some kind of harm | :05:14. | :05:23. | |
and in the East Midlands, there were 89 incidents, two cause harm. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Dr Tony Avery from Chillwell in Nottingham has carried out his own | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
research for the General Medical Council. It suggests GPs are making | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
too many mistakes when prescribing drugs to patients. | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
Your research was about prescribing errors in GP surgeries and it found | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
one in 20 there are problems with. That seems quite high. It is. I | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
would like to reassure viewers that the vast majority of prescriptions | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
are done safely and effectively. It is probably no different to what | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
you would find in other parts of the world or even in a hospital. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
from all your research, how can things get better? There are | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
several ways in which we think things can be improved. They can be | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
improvements to our GP commuter system which are already very good | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
but we can make them better. -- computer systems. To make sure that | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
we do get alerts for the more serious things. Also there is GP | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
training. Some of the young doctors in our study pointed out that they | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
felt that while they have very good training overall, they felt they | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
could have done with more attention to prescribing and prescribing | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
safely, particularly prescribing for a patient with complex health | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
needs or multiple medications. It is important for all of us to work | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
together to try to reduce the risk of errors and get the number down | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
substantially over time. While Tony's research is a concern, | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
according to the NHS data we obtained, mistakes from your GP are | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
small compared to mix-ups at community chemists. I am meeting | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
Rita Parsons from Mansfield, whose supermarket pharmacy accidentally | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
swapped the labels on her and her husband's medication, one for a | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
heart condition, the other for advanced stages of cancer. | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
Why defected did have on your husband? -- what effect did it have | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
on your husband? He could hardly move because he had only got a few | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
months left to live, and I do not think he knew what to do anyway. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
he was dying with cancer and you work, effectively, taking his | :07:40. | :07:49. | |
medicine? Yes. It is shocking. What happened when he confronted the | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
pharmacy? When I came out of hospital after ten days, she said | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
it was not the same pharmacist, she said, these should not have hurt | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
you. They are only iron tablets anyway. I said I want to speak to | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
the manager because it should not have happened. Anyway, the manager | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
promised an investigation. Did you get an apology? From him, yes. He | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
said he would get in touch with head office and they sent me a | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
bunch of flowers. But it was her attitude. She could not care less. | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
These should not have hurt you. But they did. A simple error which may | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
reach's final few months with her husband even harder. I am meeting | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Sibby Buckle. As well as a Nottingham pharmacist, she is on | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
the board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. I want to | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
know how patients can feel reassured? What sanctions can take | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
place against a pharmacy who gets it wrong? There is the ultimate | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
sanction. They can be struck off. You read about doctors being struck | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
off be -- by the GMC. Somebody might not be allowed Sue practice | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
for a period of time. We have to learn and we have to say, where can | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
we make improvements? One is the transfer of care from hospital back | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
into the community, back into your home, and secondly, shared care | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
records. At the moment there are records in the GP's surgery and in | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
the pharmacy that we do not share that information. Sharing patience' | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
medical records is something we have to look at going forward | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
because we will really start to move into that area you are talking | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
about, which is we do not want errors to take place. Dennis Aucote | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
was from South Derbyshire. His doctor mixed up as his surname with | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
another patient and his pharmacist then failed to properly identify | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
him, so he took her in the wrong tablets. Dennis died after an | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
allergic reaction. Thankfully, areas like this are rare but the | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
advice is pay close attention to the tablets in your hand and double | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
check their of the one you have been prescribed. That way, you will | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
reduce the odds of a medicine mix- Sound advice. Still to come, the | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
small screen that is helping bring Sillitoe city closer to hand. | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
Across the UK, there are more than 4,500 working guide dogs and for | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
their own as they are absolute lifeline. But attacks against them | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
are on the increase. Eight a month are set upon by other dogs. We sent | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
Phil Upton to find out why and just to warn you, some of the images in | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
his cell are disturbing. Richard Wise and his guide dog | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Scrumpy were paying a routine visit to their local post office. It is a | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
journey they had made many times. They were not prepared for what was | :10:57. | :11:07. | |
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about to happen. There to that dog... It just locked on to Scrumpy | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
under his neck and it seemed an eternity. It seemed he was locked | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
on for an eternity. The stress that it was causing was considerable and | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
Scrumpy was under a lot of stress as well. I could not see properly | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
to see what was going on but I knew the other dog had locked on. These | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
attacks are taking place all over the country. Here, captured on CCTV, | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
a pit bull has sunk his teeth into a Labrador guide dog called any | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
left. With a frenzy of kicks and punches, the pit bull owner | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
eventually prizes his dog our way. -- away. Peter was on holiday with | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
his dog Leo when a pit bull launched itself out of an open car | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
window. Within seconds, Leo was pinned to the ground. When the dog | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
was being attacked, you have a whole lot of things going through | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
your mind. The main one is the fact that you think you have lost your | :12:14. | :12:23. | |
doc. He is screaming as if there is no tomorrow and you are trying your | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
best to get the dog off, to calm the dog, and you're in tears. To | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
lose a guide dark, you have lost your mobility, your freedom, your | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
independence. Your family lose some of that as well because you then | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
have to stop relying on other people to take you places where the | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
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It may sound incredible, but the Guide Dogs for the Blind | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
Association say the attacks on guide dogs have increased. | :13:16. | :13:26. | |
can... Owners be so irresponsible? There of physical and psychological | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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scars. Also, whilst the dog is not working, their owners become | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
prisoners in their own homes. costs �50,000 to train a dog like | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
this, but all of that investment can be lost after one attack. This | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
is what happened to Lottie. She was attacked and became aggressive. | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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was in her prime and now she has had to retire. The funds have been | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
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difficult to come by to train bees dogs. Both the animals and their | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
owners live in constant fear of another attack. I live permanently | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
with the fear of being attacked. The knock-on effect is it does | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
affect my mobility. Richard has recently suffered a second attack, | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
knocking him and Scrumpy to the ground. As you can see, he has stop | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
working because he has seen a dog. In this situation, I normally ask | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
the person holding the dock if it is on the lead. If it is restrained, | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
up I will working through slowly which allows him to get his | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
confidence back. That has only happened since the attack? Yes. | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
When he is it on a harness and sees another at dog, he sees it as a | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
threat and he thinks he is going to be attacked. It is almost | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
impossible to imagine what Richard is going through, so the Guide Dogs | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
for the Blind Association put me on a blind Aldwark, assisted by a | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
labrador called Khyber. That was a very strange experience. -- called | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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Iver. I thought I was going to walk into people. Added to that, a | :16:10. | :16:20. | |
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couple of other dogs and it becomes complicated. It's difficult because | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
the guide dog doesn't know whether or not other dogs will attack. | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
Jemma Brown's... Has been attacked six times. He was treated here | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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after the worst of those attacks. If the wind was deeper, it could | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
have injured be eyeball itself and there would have been tragic for | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
Gus. It is thought that what makes dogs like Gus good at their jobs is | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
making them vulnerable to attack because they are passive. He has | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
been attacked on a number of occasions and his body language | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
projects he is not confident around other box macro and perhaps that is | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
why they keep attacking him. Guide Dogs for the Blind | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Association are causing for an urgent change in the law to stop | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
these attacks which they say are creating a climate of fear. | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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would like to see changes in the law to see attacks on assistance | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
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box macro treated as a serious crime. -- Assistance dogs. Attacks | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
on guide dogs mostly for outside the law because it is a dog on dog | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
attack and not on the person. However, this man at seen kicking | :18:18. | :18:28. | |
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his dog and was sentenced. However, this is only because his pitbull | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
was a breed that had been banned. We will use the legislation we have | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
and any further legislation to bring these people to pass and to | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
make sure for Honourable people have their trust in the police | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
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restored. Guide Dogs for the Blind Association are hoping that new | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
laws will be pushed through, so does Peter. He is my eyes and my | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
peers. You do not have the ban dog, you have a bad owner. People need | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
to realise that if their dog attacks and assistance stock, they | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
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are taking a way that person's independence. -- Assistance dog. | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
Finally, Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night, Sunday Morning was about | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
working-class people in our region. Now the book is part of a massive | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
website project and from today, you can follow in Sillitoe's footsteps | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
with an app that is being launched today. Alan Sillitoe wrote himself | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
into a list of literature grades. The places and people he knew | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
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featured strongly in his work. He put Nottingham and Raleigh bikes in | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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-- on the man. Now there is a phone app and anyone can do his tour of | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
Nottingham. We have taken themes, locations, we have looked at 1958 | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
when it was published. There are lots of different layers to have | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
that particular novel. For the last six months the Arts Council and the | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
BBC have funded a project called the Space where Saturday Night, | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
Sunday Morning is explore to see how relevant it is today. It is the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
only legitimate venture on the site outside London. Sillitoe is still | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
causing a stir outside the capital. I discovered Saturday Night, Sunday | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
Morning and I could not believe it. It completely changed my perception | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
of what authority and rebellion meant and what I could do with my | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
life. I picked up the book in the library. It was a collection of | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
short stories. I read one of them and it opened with local dialect | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
and profanity. To a 13-year-old boy, there was something else. It also | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
validated what was going on around me in my own village in | :21:44. | :21:53. | |
Nottinghamshire. No. 1 in the locations is Old Market Square, | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
Slab Square. It is the centre of Nottingham and the history of | :21:59. | :22:08. | |
rebellion there is incredible. Sillitoe was for the underdog and | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
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the downtrodden. The Occupy movement leave just as we started | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
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the project. We looked at whether or not Alan Sillitoe as a writer | :22:31. | :22:40. | |
had broken through. Raleigh is so significant to Alan Sillitoe's | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
history, and Nottingham's that it was bound to feature. I have had | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
testimonies from actual workers at Raleigh. It is important because we | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
wanted to see whether Sillitoe did capture what it was like to be a | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Raleigh worker. I know he worked there and so did many members of | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
his family. The people we interviewed had worked there for 40, | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
50 years and it was important that we listen to them. Here are some of | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
those retired Raleigh workers. Bingo and chat, all with their own | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
tails to complement the one Sillitoe's told. As part of the | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
Space project, Pete Davies is here to tell his story. On Christmas Day | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
I got a gold collards Raleigh. It was the most beautiful thing I had | :23:42. | :23:51. | |
ever seen. I found out years later that my dad had got it one piece at | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
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the time. I have to say, I rode around for years on stolen goods! | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
The project is about the present and the future as well. Here, art | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
students at New College Nottingham are tasked with coming up for a | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
design for the mobile phone app. was going along with the theme of | :24:23. | :24:33. | |
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Alan Sillitoe's famous saying. didn't know that much, to be fair. | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
I had heard of him, but I did know of the novel as such. I did know of | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
the film though. The point of the project is to raise awareness and I | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
have enjoyed watching the film. Sadly I haven't read the book, but | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
it is on my eight to do list. app allows you to visit the | :25:00. | :25:10. | |
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locations. You can also read the text and look at the pictures. | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
students or pick up the theme of drinking and the importance of pubs | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
as community places in Sillitoe's literature. There was an urban | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
legend behind the Lions in that they crowd whenever a virgin or | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
walk past. We have tried to make them look alive. There is a pint of | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
beer inside its stomach to represent the night life around | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
market square. Drinking is a theme on the Space website through allah | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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macro. -- through Al Needham. think Arthur's Seat and was -- I | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
think the main character was fantastic. If he went into a pub | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
now, he would be horrified to. Solitude is something Alan Sillitoe | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
used a fine weather going for a bike ride or fishing. Today, it is | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
something very hard to find. wanted to betray the sense that his | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
solitude possible in the digital age? Is it possible to detach | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
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yourself from the world today when we have so many different things. | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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There is a poem about YouTube youth. They have forgotten how to speak, | :27:25. | :27:34. | |
Tyne-Tees conversations, he is a proper little geek. -- types his | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
conversations. There is a lot of content to read and that is the | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
message that they want to pass on - it is important to read as well as | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
embracing all the new ways of doing that. Weeding is important. | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
Sillitoe's father was illiterate. Literature is a great way of | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
escaping. A freak way of escaping. They are also raising money for a | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Sillitoe memorial in the centre of Nottingham. Something else for | :28:04. | :28:12. | |
people to come and see. We want to generate tourism in Nottingham. | :28:12. | :28:19. | |
There is more to life than London. And here is a special book to mark | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
the completion of Sillitoe's Nottingham Then And Now. You can | :28:24. | :28:33. | |
also find the places he wrote about with the new app. That's it for now. | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
Goodbye. Next week, the incredible story of Claire Lomas, whose | :28:38. | :28:43. |