Saving Lives in Cardiff
Life-saving operations, difficult dilemmas. Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make before tackling the day job of changing people’s lives.
Cast: Rakie Ayola
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6 episodes
1. Episode 1At Wales’s biggest hospital, neurosurgeon George Eralil operates on a 19-year-old with a rare brain tumour, and vascular consultant Lewis Meecham faces a wave of emergency cases.CC58minAug 20, 2024
2. Episode 2Paediatric surgeon Oliver Jackson fights to ensure surgery for a 17-week-old baby triplet goes ahead. And a man who was the victim of an attack has an operation to restore his sight.CC58minAug 27, 2024
3. Episode 3Two maxillofacial surgeons team up to rebuilds a 19-year-old’s face after removing a tumour, and consultant Aarti Sharma fights to give a mother with incurable cancer more time with her four children.CC59minSep 3, 2024
4. Episode 4Eye surgeon Magdalena Popiela fights to save a woman’s sight, and for orthopaedic surgeon Clare Carpenter, a wave of emergencies add pressure to an already full day of surgery.CC59minSep 10, 2024
5. Episode 5Paediatric surgeon Selena Curkovic is determined to make a life-changing operation happen for an eight-year-old boy, and a spinal surgeon must decide which of two patients gets surgery first.CC58minSep 17, 2024
6. Episode 6A breast cancer patient and her surgeon of nine years hope a third operation means she can live life fully again, and three surgeons remove a tumour that is a 'ticking time-bomb.'CC58minSep 24, 2024
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Saving Lives in Cardiff
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Life-saving operations, difficult dilemmas. Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make before tackling the day job of changing people’s lives.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Carly Aston, Dominick French, Nathan Harrison
- Created by
- Rochelle Jones, Lucy Rogers, Jackie Waldock
- Cast
- Rakie Ayola
- Studio
- Label1 Television
