Marc Humphreys The Visit Heart Transplant Tragic BBC Press Photo

CHAU3968  This is a vintage 1987 large 8" x 6" BBC press photo for Marc Humphreys in the BBC episode of The Visit when the film maker needed a life saving heart transplant (please see below which tragically he died afterwards) with extensive details of the show on reverse of the souvenir prior to its broadcasting and transmission date etc and bar small places in excellent condition (ex minus).

The drama of people's lives and the journeys they make. Marc Humphreys needed a heart/lung transplant or he would die. He had been on the waiting list for longer than average.
His time was running out and his only hope of a cure for the deteriorating emphysema that made him a prisoner in his own home was for the transplant team at Papworth Hospital,
Cambridgeshire to find a suitable donor. Marc, a talented engineer and inventor, was on the brink of a successful future when the disease struck. The Visit started filming him at the beginning of this year. Marc became worse. At the last moment, a donor was found. The operation took place just a few weeks' ago and it seemed a success. For a month Marc worked to recover fully - then an infection struck him. In spite of heroic efforts by the hospital team, he died.  Almost his last wish was that the film of his fight for a transplant would still go out. It is now a memorial to his courage and a tribute to the transplant team.