Julie Walters: 'Anne wasn't a victim'

Julie Walters plays terminally ill woman Dr Anne Turner in the BBC drama A Short Stay in Switzerland. Julie and the cast talk to whatsontv.co.uk about Anne's real-life fight to die with dignity...

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[MsFanmail]

This lady is a fantastic actress she can play ant part i watched this programme it was really upsetting to see this lady who had this illness die.

[popazz1]

JW was absolutely amazing as Dr Anne Turner in the drama.I'm not sure the drama set out to 'promote' assisted suicide as such.I felt that they simply wanted to portary one person's journey towards making the decision to determine when to die.I have a 'life-limiting' illness and I absolutely demand the right to decide the time at which I am no longer prepared to live,and to be able to die with dignity!

[simplesimplicity4]

I am so in favour of assisted suicide and this movie, which i just watched, really reinforced it. i understand there's two sides to every conflict, so i guess i can accept people who disagree with assisted suicide, but i know for me personally i wouldnt want to continue living like that. regardless of anything else, i also thought it was superb acting.

[LucyLocket1986]

I just realised there's a typo in my comment it's meant to say part not park. And I know no-one is interested in this but I can't edit it so I just wanted to let people know that I do know :)

[LucyLocket1986]

Sorry I meant on the second page not the last. I just wanted to say that the drama was a brilliant piece of drama. I thought that Julie Walters was amazing in the park. I have always thought she is a wonderful dramatic actress as well as a wonderful comedic actress. And I felt she gave the role the respect it deserved and really got to grips with the character. I understand this drama has brought this debate to the public eye and all. But I for one, like others found it very emotional to watch.

[LucyLocket1986]

I just want to say that I agree with Freddie6868. And Marchone7 I thought that comment on the last page was going to be your last. I don't want to start an arguement and i'm not saying that no-one is bothered about conditions in nursing homes, etc... cause they are. I'm just saying that on-one really seems interested in your comments anymore.

[freddie6868]

i wasn`t going to bother with a reply to you, but you wrote such rubbish i had to CORRECT you.

freedom of speech and personal opinion are a basic human right. switzerland as a country in there laws give the people the basic human right to end their life. "culling of the weak" dr anne turner practised medicine for over 30 years, a profesional woman, who didnt make her decision likely!. your remark is probably the most insulting thing you wrote.

[Answl82]

Join my MAKE JULIE WALTERS A DAME group on facebook. Following the drama 'A short stay in Switzerland'. Thanx

[marchone7]

the same people who yapped and cry,d probably are the same people who have a callous indifferance to human life, in there daily lives to the abuses of the older generation who systematically are treated like shite in nursing homes, throughout the uk.

[marchone7]

such a statement to make freedom of speech overated, your exactly the type of nazi i would expect to fall on the side of culling the weak, you should get a job in a somerset nursing home, you could surpress all the speech you want in that befitting envoirment, fucking jibbering idiot.