Follows two injured soldiers as they fight for their lives after being wounded in combat.
“I was about six foot tall, and I weighed around 11 stone. Now I’m four foot tall and I weigh about eight stone.” The speaker in last night’s Wounded (BBC One) was 24-year-old paratrooper Lance Corporal Tom Neathway, talking with what turned out to be characteristic unflappability about the effect of his recent injuries in Afghanistan.
Usually of course, the moment at which soldiers become “casualties” is the last we hear of them, and then often just as statistics. In yesterday’s calm but crunching documentary – the first time the Ministry of Defence has allowed television to follow wounded soldiers after their arrival back in Britain – this was just the starting point.
Watch It Here Then ask yourself if you want to donate a pound to Help For Heroes.
“I was about six foot tall, and I weighed around 11 stone. Now I’m four foot tall and I weigh about eight stone.” The speaker in last night’s Wounded (BBC One) was 24-year-old paratrooper Lance Corporal Tom Neathway, talking with what turned out to be characteristic unflappability about the effect of his recent injuries in Afghanistan.
Usually of course, the moment at which soldiers become “casualties” is the last we hear of them, and then often just as statistics. In yesterday’s calm but crunching documentary – the first time the Ministry of Defence has allowed television to follow wounded soldiers after their arrival back in Britain – this was just the starting point.
Watch It Here Then ask yourself if you want to donate a pound to Help For Heroes.
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