Stills

• Still from The Miracle Worker showing Helen with her teacher Annie Sullivan at the water pump where Helen first grasped the meaning of language (Courtesy MGM) d
• The Alabama landscape where Helen grew up d
• Children on tour at Ivy Green, Helen Keller’s birthplace in Tuscumbia, Alabama, gathered at the water pump d
• Helen Keller, aged 8, with Annie Sullivan, her lifelong teacher and interpreter (Courtesy Perkins School for the Blind) d
• Helen, aged 16, with Annie (Courtesy Perkins School for the Blind) d
• Helen during her years Radcliffe College (Courtesy Perkins School for the Blind) d
• Helen with Annie (Courtesy Perkins School for the Blind) d
• Helen at Wrentham, near Boston, where she lived with Annie and John Macy, Annie’s husband and well-known figure in the Socialist movement. Here, she gained much of her early political education. (Courtesy American Foundation for the Blind) d
• The fantasy scene from Deliverance, the Hollywood film of Keller’s life, in which Keller “yearns for her lost love”. A young actor plays Helen (Courtesy American Foundation for the Blind) d
• Peter Fagan, Helen’s “brief love…a little island of joy”, which was thwarted by the people around her (Courtesy Ann Fagan Ginger) d
• Helen with Annie Sullivan (Courtesy American Foundation for the Blind) d
• After Annie’s death, Helen travelled to Scotland to recuperate (Courtesy American Foundation for the Blind) d
• After Annie’s death, Helen travelled to Scotland to recuperate (Courtesy American Foundation for the Blind) d
• The FBI file opened on Helen Keller’s political activities during the McCarthy years 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) 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) d
• Helen during her retirement years at Arcan Ridge (Courtesy American Foundation for the Blind) d
• Helen during her retirement years at Arcan Ridge (Courtesy American Foundation for the Blind) d
• The Real Helen Keller d
• Drama insert to the programme showing ‘the young Helen’, played by Ailsa Fairley 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 d
• Paul Longmore, Professor of History, San Francisco State University, interviewed in the programme d
• Georgina Kleege, writer and disability activist, interviewed in the programme and giving a blind woman’s perspective on the real Helen Keller d
• The late Larry Adler, musician, interviewed in the programme about the time he met Helen Keller d