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BREAKTHROUGH

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

A new occasional series of documentary programmes dealing with advances in various fields of modern medicine which merit the description ' breakthrough '
Written and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL
1: Spare Parts Surgery
Among other new surgical techniques the programme deals with organ transplantation (such as kidney transplants), the restoring of severed limbs, and the transplantation of limbs from one human being to another.
Taking part are leading surgeons interviewed by Stephen Grenfell in Britain and the United States
Produced by ALAN BURGESS

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Unknown:
Stephen Grenfell
Interviewed By:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
Alan Burgess
Source: Radio Times

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