Family Life
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Lifestyle magazine series for all the family, featuring items on MMR, adult learning and dream rooms.
Presenter Helen Mark gives an overview of what is coming up on on this edition of the weekly family and lifestyle magazine show. Jacqui Berkley reports on vaccination worries about the MMR jab. Dr Richard Smithson of the Vaccination and Immunisation Body is interviewed and Ian Banks, a GP, talks in studio and points out the previous death rates from measles before vaccinations. Jackie Fletcher from the JABS support group disputes the official advice and wants separate vaccinations made available instead of the combined MMR.
Gillian Ievers reports from the school playground with parents talking about the courses available to them to enable them to help their children with school and learn new things themselves. Brenda Martin of Belfast Institute talks about the range of courses. Noel Henry, an adult education teacher, and Norman Farrell, an ex-student turned teacher, talk in studio about the helpful learning environment for adults.
A report on the Dream Room competition winner with a little girl called Tanisha Waring featured inside her bedroom. Her mother, Laura, talks about her desire for a room makeover and they meet Helen Mark in studio where Tanisha is asked what she wants. Feature on Jim Brown who works as an Elvis impersonator. We are shown his home life with wife and five children and footage of him on stage.
The show finishes with the Barritt family. Three brothers have put on a classical music concert as a tribute to their parents and their own wives and children also take part with them performing on stage.
The Family Show (previously named Family Life) was a weekly magazine style series presenting reports and in-studio features on family matters, from young children, education, mothers, fathers and issues for the elderly, as well as items on cooking, shopping and leisure.