Well I’ve finally found out about the Maverick Television programme about Alopecia. Its part of the BBC One “One Life” series and is called “Laid Bare”.
In it Gail Porter talks candidly about her life as she comes to terms with living with the disease. This poignant programme transmits as part on the BBC 1 One Life strand. and will air on Wednesday 31st May at 10.35pm on BBC One ( This is showing in the UK only ).
I hope the programme stimulates some debate about living with Alopecia and I’ll certainly be talking about my thoughts on the subject. I do hope that we will see more of other people living with Alopecia in the programme as well as Gail herself.
May 29th, 2006
I read an interesting article about Mark Oaten (A liberal democrat MP in the United Kingdom) and the effect male pattern baldness has had on his life on the Independant website.
To quote the article.
In a remarkably candid article, the Lib Dem MP describes how overwork and the pressure of living in the Westminster village coincided with “something of a mid-life crisis”. Losing his hair in his late thirties had “knocked me for six” he says. “I started to look noticeably older.”
He found that his thinning locks were attracting more attention than the important messages he was trying to convey about the Liberal Democrat policy on law and order. Television appearances would result in a “barrage of emails” noting his lack of hair. “I became more and more obsessed by its disappearance.”
The article goes on to explain how an estimated two thirds of adult men will suffer from male pattern baldness or androgenic alopecia as it is technically known.
Read the full article here
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May 8th, 2006