Jen had about a 15 minutes interview on the World Service during the early hours a few days ago. Probably it was about 3.15 am I think. They played her recordings of her journey with ME and also her husband's viewpoint of her suffering. She explained how it had all started and how that had affected her, what her career had been and also how it suddenly changed after a virus I think (from memory might be wrong) and left her bed bound. Again they played her recordings of how this made her feel along with many other ME sufferers who I think were bed bound, from all over the world. She had met them through the Internet.
They finished by bringing her story up to the current time where she stressed her advocacy and they finished the interview with her on her condition now. It was excellent and not once did the interviewer who I think was Matthew Bannister, a very experienced BBC executive, go into physcological stuff. I was waiting at the end for SW to pop up and put a counter viewpoint but I am delighted to say that didn't happen. So 15 minutes was devoted to an accurate depiction of ME, very impressive from the BBC for a change.
Pam