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AJ Cronin - The Citadel (Omnibus)

Drama: Medical

Adaptation of the ground-breaking, award-winning novel about medical ethics.

Adaptation of the ground-breaking, award-winning novel from 1937, about medical ethics in a small Welsh mining town.

The Citadel (Omnibus)

AJ Cronin - The Citadel (Omnibus): Series 1

The Citadel

Series 1

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A new enthusiastic doctor arrives in a Welsh mining town but is soon brought down to earth

An enthusiastic newly-trained doctor arrives in a Welsh mining town but is soon brought down to earth. Stars Richard Fleeshman.

Andrew Manson, a newly trained doctor arrives in Drineffy, a South Wales mining town. 

He is to be an assistant to the elderly Dr Page. Manson is idealistic and full of enthusiasm but this is soon tempered by reality when he meets the cynical Dr Denny another doctor in the town.

Set in the mid 1920s and based on AJ Cronin's ground breaking novel, which partly inspired Nye Bevan to create the NHS.

Omnibus of five episodes dramatised by Christopher Reason.      

Manson …. Richard Fleeshman
Denny …. Julian Lewis Jones
Blodwyn .… Sue Jenkins
Dr Page / Dr Griffiths …. Seamus O'Neill
Jenkins / Mr Williams / Miner …. Simon Ludders
Mrs Williams / Woman / Mrs Pryce / Gaynor .… Kath Weare
Old Thomas / PC Davies .... Simeon Truby
Branwell .... Philip Fox
Gwyneth .... Fiona Clarke

Director:  Gary Brown

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017

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