Dispatches: Battle Scarred

[Beast]

Channel 4 would like to invite you and a friend to join us for our next Talking Television Screening



Join award-winning filmaker David Modell and Channel 4 Head of News & Current Affairs, Dorothy Byrne for a preview screening and discussion.

As the number of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan continues to grow, David Modell examines the devastating psychological trauma suffered by so many surviving soldiers. The programme documents the lives of four soldiers who have been left with serious psychiatric problems as a result of their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film and website explore the impact on their families and questions the adequacy of existing support structures.



Thursday 3 September
Channel 4, 124 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2TX
Please arrive 6pm for a 6.30pm screening followed by Q&A

RSVP talkingtelevision@channel4.co.uk or 020 7306 8541
Please mention that you read this article at Military Forums.

www.channel4.com/battlescarred


Please Note:
Due to a technical error some RSVPs sent to the Talking Television email address in the last week have not been received.

Please re-send your RSVP to c4events@channel4.co.uk

Apologies for the inconvenience and if you are able to attend, Talking Television Screening and Channel 4 look forward to meeting you next week.

[Twofour]

This post was edited as its contents were not related to the original post and off-topic!

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Twofour I suggest you delete that shit you call a post, it's hardly in keeping with the topic of this thread is it! Insensitive bastard, do you think anyone on here really gives a damn about home make over shows???

[Wholley]

Play nicely girls,
I would hate to steal your handbags and run away

[Beast]

Due to a technical error some RSVPs sent to the Talking Television email address in the last week have not been received.

Please re-send your RSVP to c4events@channel4.co.uk

Apologies for the inconvenience and if you are able to attend, Talking Television Screening and Channel 4 look forward to meeting you next week.

[Beast]

The Battle Scarred website, which complements the Dispatches programme (to be aired Monday 7th September at 8pm) has now gone live. The website offers exclusive video clips and stories about the psychological traumas suffered by many soldiers as a result of their time spent in combat zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan–some of which may take years to develop.

The site covers four topics; mental health, relationships, alcohol and suicide and each has a series of clips from ex soldiers and their families about how each of these has directly affected them. In a series of moving short videos, the clips tell the stories of how families can be left devastated by the suicide of their loved ones, how lives can be wrecked by trying to battle the demons of war with drink or drugs and how marriages and relationships can falter when a returning soldier tries to adjust to life back home.

There are also research articles into the background of each topic and a chance for anyone affected by them to comment on the issues and share their experiences. There is a section for Help and Support and links to other websites which discuss the impact of combat on the psychological health of the people who serve in our military.

Photographs taken by serving soldiers and video clips taken with their mobile phones also give a sense of what life is like fighting in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and there are a series of portraits of ex-soldiers by the film-maker David Modell of all the people he spoke to in the making of Battle Scarred.

Please visit the site at www.channel4.com/battlescarred