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I am Adam Wishart, a writer and documentary-maker.
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My documentary #23weekbabies: The Price of Life will be broadcast at 9pm, on 9th March on BBC2. on iPlayer
My documentary The Price of Life was broadcast in 2009 it was nominated for the Grierson Award for the Best Science Documentary
MONKEYS, RATS and ME won the 2007 Grierson Award for the Best Science Documentary .
I wrote ONE IN THREE : a son's journey into the history and science of cancer. It was nominated for the Royal Society Book Prize.
Read the Book's Introduction
Buy it in the US here
"An amazing book" says Professor Karol Sikora. "Riveting" says David Lodge
Before that I wrote LEAVING REALITY BEHIND.

"An important story and as absorbing as a well crafted thriller." The Financial Times Other reviews.
And before that I made documentaries for the BBC. One of which won an RTS Award.
To contact me please email me at adam (at) adamwishart.info
Adam:
Every award you get is well-deserved. I'm an APML survivor, currently reassembling my life after 28 months of intensive chemo. You captured the glory and hopelessness of cancer treatment. And you made the point that there is no one thing that we can do to stop it, so we better do everything we can. Nicely done.
Posted by: John Gaffney | 07 May 2007 at 04:02 PM
John, thanks so much for your kind words. During the writing of the book, I was always conscious that patients might read it at some point in the future. And it always worried me that the particular experience of my Dad, and my research into the history of cancer medicine, would somehow fail to strike the chord with any of the great diversity of cancer patients. Perhaps all patients are so different, I feared, and the information they require is so varied, that a book like mine wouldn't be any good.
So it is a relief that you, and patients with a wide variety of different sorts of cancers, (breast, testicular, various leukemia's among them) have described the benefit they've found from the book. Its difficult to describe how overwhelming and pleasing that relief is.
I'm grateful for you comments thanks.
Adam Wishart
Posted by: Adam Wishart | 07 May 2007 at 04:46 PM