Another World - ACE287.2

Tina Leslie in garden. Nursery rhymes playing over. Rocking her baby at home. Her VO says that she was sent to several special schools where and had "supernatural, ghostly" experiences. Photographs of her and other people with disabilities who, she says, had had similar experiences; she wonders why institutions for disabled people are apparently haunted. Leslie, who has no hands, at home with her baby, in her kitchen. Her VO says she had the idea of a book on ghosts by disabled people, and contacted Brian Vickers. He talks about taking infrared photographs. Leslie at Pear Tree Cottage. Her VO talks about her "real self, at nine days old" (called Sarah) which she "left behind in the fire" coming back to haunt her. Inside Pear Tree Cottage. She talks about living there as a child, playing outside in the forest; Leslie re-enacts some childhood activities, playing with toys, etc. Julie Fernandez watching a television programme which asks why there are no disabled characters in Eastenders. Leslie appears on her television to ask Julie about the ghost she once saw at Treloar College, Alton. Fernandez describes the experience. At the College. Sian Vesey describes working with a Ouija board which gave her a message from someone who had occupied the same room and had died in a fire. Vesey talking on the telephone to someone who had been at the same Ouija session. Vickers taking photographs. The college buildings and grounds. Leslie at Pear Tree Cottage talking VO about "Bobby" whom she would hear moving around at night and would feel touching her