I'll Die After Bingo: My unlikely life as a care home assistant

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Channel 5 has announced the location for Michael Palin’s latest major series, to air later this year. It’s important that the public, and politicians, have access to no-holds-barred accounts of what life in care is like for residents and staff, but stories of care are sadly few and far between – and there is definitely scope for more. Lonergan also has a special empathy for his clients as he has lived on the sidelines of society himself as a now-recovering drug addict.

But while they each are comedians offering an often darkly funny first-hand account of the woefully underfunded health and social care system, writing with one eye towards raising their field up the political agenda, there are differences in approach.

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I wish Pope a major success with this polemic on the current state of some of the private health care sector. They still say and do the most odd, sometimes transgressive, things – and Lonergan knows that’s too funny not to report, but we get a better understanding of the people behind the peculiarities.

BBC Arts has commissioned Passion Pictures to make a new three-part boxset documentary series on Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor with Kim Kardashian on board as an exec producer. In the creative industries (ergh) cultivating relationships is really important - and luckily Expectation is full of the nicest, most insightful and talented "TV people" you’ll ever find. It's clear that he feels his own vulnerability and struggles with mental health give him a heightened understanding of the plight of the 'elders' he supports- and, fundamentally a greater humility and patience. He reminds us funding for social care is contingent on the NHS clearing the Covid backlog – only then will funding trickle down to elderly care. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Hats off also to him for his dedication in working this broken system, and I'm sure than many of the residents were that much the better because of him. A truly refreshing perspective of work and life in the care industry with an unapologetic sense of humour in its tapestry that only Pope could deliver both sensitively and with the full force of a frying pan.