LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Fear and loathing

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Music; Trailer; Poetry

TX Date

11 Aug 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:25:49

Description

Documentary on phobias – their cause and treatments. Includes interviews with consultant psychiatrist Dr Nasir Ali; GP Dr Jane McPherson (?); psychotherapist Norman Lee who runs Phobias Confidential; hypnotist Ray Edwards; Sarah Woolf(?) who suffers with koumpounophobia (fear of buttons). Also interviews with unidentified sufferers of agoraphobia (public spaces), acrophobia (heights), ornithophobia (birds), aquaphobia (water), arachnophobia (spiders). Also discussed: cynophobia (fear of dogs), mysophobia (germs), aichmophobia (knives), aerophobia (flying), pteronophobia (feathers) and claustrophobia (enclosed spaces). Also includes trailer for Fright Night and The Thing; song I’m Scared by Brian May; a poem about wasps. Female presenter not identified. Ends abruptly halfway through a sentence. Programme came second in student competition.

Contributors

Ray Edwards; Brian May; Nasir Ali; Jane McPherson(?); Norman Lee; Sarah Woolf(?)

Keywords

Books; Films; Hypnosis; Psychotherapy; Therapy; Anxiety disorders; James Herbert; Phobias; Wasps; Fright Night; The Thing; I’m Scared; The Rats; Alfred Hitchcock; The Birds; Phobic Society

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