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20 August 2008

The Real Helen Keller

 

Stills

Picture of the water pump[d]
Still from The Miracle Worker showing Helen at the water pump where she first grasped the meaning of language
(courtesy MGM)

Picture of Alabama landscape[d]
The Alabama landscape where Helen grew up

Picture of children on tour[d]
Children on tour at Helen Keller's birthplace in Tuscumbia, Alabama, gathered at the water pump

Picture of Helen and Annie[d]
Helen Keller, aged 8, with Annie Sullivan, her lifelong teacher and interpreter
(courtesy Perkins School for the Blind)

Picture of Helen and Annie[d]
Helen, aged 16, with Annie
(courtesy Perkins School for the Blind)

Picture of the house at Wrentham[d]
Helen at Wrentham, near Boston, where she gained much of her early political eductation. With her are Annie and John Macy, Annie's husband and well-known figure in the Socialist movement
(courtesy American Foundation for the Blind)

Picture of Peter Fagan[d]
Peter Fagan, Helen's "brief love...a little island of joy" which was thwarted by the people around her
(courtesy Ann Fagan Ginger)

Picture from Deliverance[d]
The fantasy scene from Deliverance, the Hollywood film of Keller's life
(courtesy American Foundation for the Blind)

Picture of Helen and Annie[d]
Helen with Annie Sullivan
(courtesy American Foundation for the Blind)

Picture of Helen on ship[d]
After Annie's death, Helen travelled to Scotland for recuperation
(courtesy American Foundation for the Blind)

Picture of Helen with other people pulling haycart[d]
After Annie's death, Helen travelled to Scotland for recuperation
(courtesy American Foundation for the Blind)

Picture of Helen's FBI file[d]
The FBI file opened on Helen Adams Keller's political activities during the McCarthy years

Picture from The Unconquered[d]
The 1950 film biography The Unconquered which set out to restore Keller's saintly public image after her brush with the FBI, not least by portraying her as a gullible infant
(courtesy American Foundation for the Blind)

Picture of Helen looking tense[d]
Helen constantly had to work to maintain the saintly image, once saying she couldn't drink a Martini in public because people would say the American saint is getting drunk. This is the one known photograph not to have been destroyed of Helen Keller showing the strain
(courtesy American Foundation for the Blind)

Picture of Helen at Arcan Ridge[d]
Helen during her retirement years at Arcan Ridge
(courtesy American Foundation for the Blind)

Picture of young woman reading Braille[d]
Drama inserts to the programme showing 'the young Helen'

Picture of Janet K Marcous[d]
Janet K Marcous, Instructor at Northeaston University, interviewed in the programme and giving a deaf-blind woman's perspective on the real Helen Keller

Picture of Paul Longmore[d]
Paul Longmore, Professor of History, San Francisco State University, interviewed in the programme

Picture of Georgina Kleege[d]
Georgina Kleege, writer and disability activist, interviewed in the programme and giving a blind woman's perspective on the real Helen Keller

Picture of Larry Adler[d]
The late Larry Adler, musician, interviewed in the programme about the time he met Helen Keller


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