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World Service,12 Feb 2011,28 mins

Henry and Patrick Cockburn, Living with Schizophrenia

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Henry Cockburn describes his experiences of schizophrenia as he emerges from six years of living in mental hospitals. While his father Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning foreign correspondent, talks about his battle to find a future for his son who was diagnosed with this cruel mental illness at the age of 20. They talk to Carrie Gracie on The Interview.

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