Man Alive

The Paras (1965x6)

Air date: Dec 09, 1965

Tonight the Prime Minister will present a sporting award to a partly paralysed man-a paraplegic. This is a story of achievement, partly of Dr. Guttmann and partly of his patients paraplegia is sudden and final - an accident can tie a man or woman to a bath-chair for the rest of their life. And that would be that. but for the work of a doctor working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.