A Nest of Cuckoos

This episode covers chapters 8-11

  8. Becoming a mental nurse

  9. 'Snot fair

  10. Forensic Gump

  11. Control and a little restraint

Parker from Thunderbirds, manual faecal evacuations, ridiculous management egos, smashing up toilets and weaponising yucca plants. A crazy way to earn your rent.

Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Chapters 4-7  

4. Why, though? Are you mad? 

5. Thin Vessel 

6. Pitch Battle 

7. Breakfast Baps.

A Narrow Boat holiday from hell, a football match in hell, and plenty of debauchery.

My mental health takes a battering - I guess I was getting paid!

This is the first episode of 10-15 based on the book 'I Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest'

This covers the first three chapters of a personal account from within the walls of the asylum. Very funny, but also a hard-hitting reality show that's not sugar-coated; it's 'warts and all', meaning not only the warts, but also the halitosis and skid marks.

A cynical, darkly comic memoir-turned-series about a misfit mental health nurse surviving (barely) the absurd horrors of 1980's psychiatric care, where the line between caregiver and patient blurs in a broken system.

My name is Christopher Ford. I am that 'survivor'.

This episode gives you insight into a psychiatric lock-up institution, an introduction to the 'Gorillic' Jeff James character, an unexpectedly embarrassing near-death experience and the legendary frozen corpse.