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Saving Lives in Cardiff

2024 - 2025

Episode 1

20th August 2024

Episode 1

At 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.

Episode 2

27th August 2024

Episode 2

Paediatric 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.

Episode 3

3rd September 2024

Episode 3

Two 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.

Episode 4

10th September 2024

Episode 4

Eye 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.

Episode 5

17th September 2024

Episode 5

Paediatric 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.

Episode 6

24th September 2024

Episode 6

A 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.'

Top Cast

Director

Nathan Harrison

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.

Watch Providers 🇬🇧

BBC iPlayer

Production Companies

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Full Cast

Rakie Ayola Image

Rakie Ayola

Self - Narrator

Full Crew

Nathan Harrison

Director

Carly Aston

Director

Dominick French

Director

Rochelle Jones

Producer

Megan Pinches

Production Manager

Matthew Cracknell

Music

Lucy Rogers

Producer

Jackie Waldock

Executive Producer

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