''Some Kind of Life'' is an

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's 1995 TV drama written by

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and directed by

Julian Jarrold Julian Edward Peter Jarrold (born 1961, Norwich) is a BAFTA-nominated British film and television director. Early life and family A scion of the Huguenot family originally from near Lyon in France, which founded Jarrolds of Norwich in 1823, ...

, starring

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and

Ray Stevenson George Raymond Stevenson (25 May 196421 May 2023) was a Northern Ireland-born actor, best known for his film and television work. He had a starring role as legionary Titus Pullo on the BBC/HBO television series ''Rome'' (2005–2007), and port ...

, it was aired on 11 August 1996 and produced by

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for the

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Synopsis

In this drama, Alison (Jane Horrocks) is a young wife and mother whose life is turned upside down after her beloved husband, Steve (Ray Stevenson), is involved in a motorcycle crash, suffers massive head trauma, and regresses to a mental and emotional age of 5. Much of the story centres on the mundane aspects of being forced to deal with the loss of her husband as a man and the acquisition of him as a child. Time passes and things do not improve. Slowly, even Steve's closest friends begin withdrawing their support. Eventually, Alison is forced to decide whether she will continue to stick by Steve, or whether she will go on without him.

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