Wednesday 8 August 2007 9:00pm - 10:30pm on ITV1.

In 1999 ITV1’s Malcolm and Barbara…A Love Story won critical acclaim for the moving account of Malcolm and Barbara Pointon who had their perfect lives turned upside when Malcolm, at only 51, developed Alzheimer’s.

Paul Watson’s original inspirational film told the story of how love sustains a relationship in even the most difficult of times. For four years, Watson became a new member of the family, filming alone with only a digital video camera. This touching documentary moved and inspired viewers and critics alike.

Now Paul brings us the second part of Malcolm and Barbara’s love story after spending a total of 11 years with the couple on a journey that eventually lead to Malcolm’s death in February this year.

This powerful and emotive film follows Malcolm as Alzheimer’s takes control of his body, mind and marriage. Malcolm, a talented pianist who was once a composer and worked for the BBC, is reduced to a skeleton of his former self, unable to eat, speak or walk.

The film shows Malcolm just after he was first diagnosed with the disease – aged 51. Extracts from his diary are featured – he documented the “silent buzzing in his head” that had started to affect his memory and concentration.

He wrote: “Very difficult to concentrate, memory is bad, Barbara gets exasperated with me and often I don’t know why. There is a silent physical buzzing in my head, is it depression or something worse?”

It is Malcolm’s music which haunts much of the film as it tells the story of the onset of the disease and the strain it puts on the couple’s relationship.

Barbara, a music lecturer who had hosted a BBC radio music programme with Malcolm, took early retirement to care for her husband and used the couple’s savings to pay the £1000 a month care bills.