I've had difficulty in writing this review. I initially caught the last half of Tony Harrison's ‘docudrama’ about Alzheimer's disease shown at the outset of Alzheimer Awareness Week in July and hated it. My heart sank at the Brechtian device of putting the dialogue to the tune of a hymn (in this case the carol ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’), and I found the approach to the three ‘star’ patients chosen for the film from those in Whernside ward, High Royds Hospital, sentimental and patronising.