The Mummy Diaries

There are a series of three programmes on Channel 4 called The Mummy Diaries and I caught the 2nd one last night. It was excellent. Julie Stokes, founder of Winston's Wish, a charity that works with bereaved children, does group therapy for families where the mother has aggressive cancer (usually terminal). It wasn't sad and depressing but there were moments of sadness and I was very touched. 5 year old Imogen in the programme was lovely: bright, articulate and clued-up. She was describing how the most important part of mummy had gone to heaven and that bones were all that were left and that soon the bones would be ash and then the ash would disappear. I was just getting to the point where I couldn't believe the resilience of this child when she curled up in a ball upset. I loved seeing how grief in all the people on the programme, including the mums was expressed and moved through so the camera didn't cut away from tears, it saw them through to hope.
It was good.