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Emmeline Saunders

Author Michael Rosen chokes up in Repair Shop NHS special after near-death coma

The Repair Shop helps mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS by restoring cherished mementoes of staff and patients, including author Michael Rosen.

Ex-Children’s Laureate Michael, 77, who was struck down with Covid in March 2020, brings in a diary kept by his ­diligent doctors and nurses as he lay in a coma.

On the intensive care ward where he spent 48 days battling the virus, they recorded how they cared for him on a daily basis.

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