Let conversation cease, let laughter flee. This is the place where death delights, to help the living.
This translation of a Latin inscription, to be found on the wall of the medical examiner's office in New York, sums up for many pathologists the reasons for doing what to many would be unpleasant and macabre.
In the first of three programmes to look at modem forensic medicine, one of Britain's leading forensic pathologists, Professor Bernard Knight , discusses his approach to a case of sudden, unexpected or suspicious death, both at the location where the body is discovered and during the start of the laboratory examination. Presented by Richard Rees Producers PAUL EVANS and RICHARD REES Stereo