The Times | Today kids, we’re off to Broadmoor
16 October 2016 / The Times
For four decades Marjorie Wallace has given a voice to the miserable and maimed. Leaf Arbuthnot hears of a career that began with being paid to take drugs.
From the time she was a little girl Marjorie Wallace wanted to be a war correspondent but she says: “I found my front line much closer to home.” For years she worked as The Sunday Times “misery correspondent”, doing groundbreaking work on the thalidomide scandal. Thirty years ago she set up the mental health charity Sane.