Jon Snow: A Last Big Story
Channel 4 premiered Jon Snow: A Last Big Story, a feature-length documentary that follows veteran newsreader Jon Snow as he confronts an Alzheimer’s diagnosis while investigating a catastrophic mining disaster in Zambia. The film records Snow undergoing cognitive testing, sharing the diagnosis with his wife, and reporting on homes destroyed and displacement tied to the mine. The documentary serves as a swan song for Snow’s decades-long journalism career and spotlights both the personal reality of Alzheimer’s and the neglected plight of the Zambian community he seeks to expose.
Really quite taken aback and sad at how frail Jon Snow looks - he's eight years younger than my dad, yet looks a decade older than him. Bastard Alzheimer's.
Kate Bevan17I've met Jon a few times and he was always a delight to spend any time with. Such a big personality.
highpoh.bsky.social4Yep. Mum didn't look like she was in her 80s until very close to when she died. Last time I saw her she was so incredibly frail. (But quite happy) Alzheimer's doesn't just affect memory. It also makes people really frail and prone to falling.
Jimmywim2It really destroys so much of a person, including all their subtle mannerisms you don't normally clock on to, that make up that person as a whole, as the one you remember.
