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PBS PROGRAM PROVIDES HISTORICAL VIEW OF EPILEPSY
PBS television stations across the country will air the two-part
documentary- style drama The Lost Prince, Oct. 17 and 24. The program is
about Prince John
of the British Royal Family who had epilepsy.

The Lost Prince is a deeply moving story of a child with epilepsy in an
age
when people with the disorder were hidden from society and, as in this
tragic
case, even isolated from family and friends. The youngest child of
George V and
Queen Mary, Prince John's short life spanned the political build-up to
World
War I and the maneuverings of European royalty in the early part of the
20th
Century.

Viewers should be aware that potentially offensive references to
epilepsy are
historically accurate and in keeping with the documentary nature of the
production. For example, there are a number of references to 'fits,' a
term for
seizures that is discouraged in this country, but one that even today
remains
in common use in the English-speaking world outside of the United
States.

Consult local television listings for the airtime and PBS channel in
your area
or visit PBS online at
http://www.pbs.org/preview/masterpiece_lostprince/.
->http://www.efa.org/epilepsyusa/lostprince.cfm

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