Pratchett’s Alzheimers Struggles to be Shown in BBC Docudrama

The BBC will air a docudrama on February 11th featuring Terry Pratchett and the autobiography he didn’t finish.

The prolific author, who sold 85 million books in his lifetime, translated into 37 languages, was attempting to complete his autobiography but was struggling to complete the work in a haze of Alzheimers and now it’s been turned into a docudrama, which is likely to be both enjoyable and heartbreaking for fans.

It’s almost two years since Sir Terry Pratchett died at the age of 66, but in the show he’s seen struggling with the keyboard, and declaring that “Terry Pratchett is dead’ as he realises he can no longer write.

Pratchett’s determination to continue writing after his diagnosis won him a legion of fans, and a great deal of respect. Even after announcing his diagnosis, the author completed seven more Discworld books, but his autobiography, in which he talks about living with the disease, remains unfinished.

Both Sir Terry’s work when he was alive, and the tireless work he did for the Alzheimer’s Society will keep his memory alive for many, many years. Fans of the author can tune into BBC2 on 11th February for the docudrama, Back in Black. The show will be available on the iPlayer soon after.