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🗓️ 2 May 2023
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Charity, celebrity, illness and control. The extraordinary story of a teenage girl and her charity Believe in Magic, which ends up challenging the very nature of sickness itself.
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0:00.0 | In 2012, a new charity bursts onto the scene. |
0:04.0 | It's called Believe in Magic, and it grants wishes to seriously ill children. |
0:10.0 | It's run by an inspirational 16 year old girl called Megan Barrie. |
0:15.6 | I just wanted to give them the magical experiences back. |
0:19.6 | It has the support of the biggest boy band in the world. One direction. |
0:25.0 | Believe in magic quickly becomes a household name in the child cancer community, |
0:31.0 | putting on parties, sending thoughtful gifts, even organizing trips to Disney. |
0:37.0 | Every single child there felt like they were so important and they weren't poorly, they weren't in a hospital. It was out of this world. |
0:45.2 | Megan is adored by all those she helps. She had more sympathy and love for people |
0:51.8 | than I'd ever met anybody before. |
0:55.0 | Because she herself is extremely unwell with a life-threatening brain tumor. |
1:00.0 | Her handbag was so heavy, none of us could ever carry it and it was full of medicine. |
1:06.0 | When something doesn't add up about Megan's story, |
1:10.0 | a small group of parents start to question whether Meg is really ill. |
1:15.0 | I'd call it a witch hunt kind of thing, asking questions like, which hospital are you in? |
1:21.0 | They know that they're not being honest |
1:23.4 | about her illnesses. |
1:25.4 | We collectively said, we won't let it drop, |
1:27.7 | we'll find out this time. |
1:30.8 | But is Megan actually facing a very different danger? |
1:34.0 | So soreful. |
1:37.0 | It's really not nice listening to that, was it? |
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