Kevin talks about his years as an education worker at Whittington Hospotal: The impetus for working in the hospital was really born out of family situations and problems. I started working in therapy as a student and was initially called and education worker, although I was really doing lots of different things. I would play football with the patients, conduct art classes, even set up the Christmas pantomime. It really wore me out after four years. I moved into an area I didn’t understand. It was a big hospital, about 2,500-3,000 patients, and it was almost like a big toy, a big township of supposedly crazy people. People in a state of pain will never admit they’re in a slide like that. So I charged in there and tried to change their situation, although in retrospect, I might have done things differently. I went back there about two years ago to do a documentary for a series on Granada television and all the patients came up and embraced me. I guess I must have made an impression. (Trouser Press, January 1978) kevincoynepage.free.fr/KC-wartsandall1.htm#_Toc118082125
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