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Post by peelee on Feb 8, 2017 10:06:26 GMT
Six-part series Hospital is as gripping as was the recently broadcast short series Ambulance about which I also started a thread in General Chat. BBC can produce such good documentaries and so often there is a tie-in with the Open University for those wanting to study more. It is working its way through the series and tonight the fifth programme is broadcast. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088rp6xwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088rp75Hospital, the first episode of which will be available for download for just two more days, has got everything that play lovers so often like — intense drama, some droll humour, serious things to think about, and a range of characters that prove fascinating whether having more or less screen time. Talking-point television that, squeamish viewers please note, has only fleeting scenes of operating theatre activity, yet so much more about life in hospitals that come under the auspices of the Imperial College Health Trust in West London.
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Post by peelee on Jun 21, 2017 7:49:16 GMT
A second series of Hospital began last night on BBC TV. If you're interested in character, story, subplot and drama, then this should hook you as a viewer. Like recent TV series on the London Ambulance Service, and The Met about which police force a TV series continues, and The Tube about London's underground system, it covers a range of human dilemmas, situations and emotions. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08w8ktv/hospital-series-2-episode-1
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Post by CG on the loose on Jun 21, 2017 9:45:55 GMT
I watched it on the train to work this morning - the first ep was particularly powerful covering, as it did, the day of the Westminster Bridge attack. I was slightly surprised, given that I watch TV hospital dramas regularly with no problem at all, at how difficult I found it to view the more graphic scenes showing the very severe injuries suffered... relieved in fact that I haven't become inured to the real human tragedy by a surfeit of fictional 'horror'. I will definitely be tuning in for the rest of the series.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2017 10:24:47 GMT
The editing and filming are excellent in this series in general
But as people have already posted on here the first episode in this second series is particularly powerful
All respect to my friends and colleagues at Mary's who appeared in this particular episode
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2017 17:08:25 GMT
I thought this was an excellent programme. They are worth their weight in gold yet our Government have given them no real pay rise since 2010.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2017 11:54:45 GMT
I thought this was an excellent programme. They are worth their weight in gold yet our Government have given them no real pay rise since 2010. We don't mind We would do the job for free It's a vocation A calling
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