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AJ Cronin - The Citadel (Omnibus)

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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.

AJ Cronin - The Citadel (Omnibus): Series 2

The Citadel

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Drama series about medical life before the NHS, set in 1920s south Wales.

Dr Andrew Manson has taken on the elderly and ailing patients in a mid-1920s South Wales mining town. Stars Richard Fleeshman.

Andrew Manson, a newly trained doctor is established now in Drineffy, a South Wales mining town and has taken on all of his elderly and ailing employer's sick patients. He remains good friends with the cynical Dr Denny - a flawed genius, and narrator, who observes Manson's very own sickness - 'love sickness'.
Set in the mid 1920s and based on A J Cronin's ground breaking novel, which is said to have partly inspired the creation of the NHS.

Manson ...... Richard Fleeshman
Denny ...... Julian Lewis Jones
Christine ...... Alexandra Roach
Branwell ...... Philip Fox
Gladys ...... Kath Weare
Aneurin Rees ...... Simon Ludders
Mrs Howellls ...... Ellie Darvill

Pianist: Simon Hoban

Dramatised by Christopher Reason.

Produced by Pauline Harris and Gary Brown.
Directed by Gary Brown.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.

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