Asylum.

Date:
1999
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Description

Friern Barnet Mental Hospital, North London, was Europe's largest mental asylum. It is now being transformed into Princess Park Manor, a luxurious residential development. Against a background of demolition and renovation, former patients recall their experiences and future residents outline their reasons for wishing to move in. Some patients look back to the sense of community as being the best part of their treatment, and regret its absence in their present lives, while those eager to move in are hoping to to find precisely that. An advertisement for the development, emphasising its wonderful amenities, states, "you don't have to leave the site". A former patient points out that this was precisely the former inmates' predicament.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : CHANNEL 4 TV, 1999.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Copyright note

Channel 4

Notes

Viewer reported playback problems in the library; please view in the department. The channel is switched before part 2, it does revert to the correct channel.
Supporting paperwork available in the department.

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Compulsive Viewing

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