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Keats is a poet in waiting but meanwhile trains as a surgeon at Guys Hospital in 1815.

4 Extra Debut. Young Keats is a poet in waiting. But in the brutal days of body snatchers, he’s training as a surgeon. Stars Julian Rhind-Tutt.

John Keats is a major romantic poet in-waiting. 

Meanwhile, he is training to become a London surgeon in the brutal times of body snatchers and no anaesthetics...

Starring Julian Rhind-Tutt.  

Written by Angus Graham Campbell

John Keats .... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Tyrrell .... Joshua Towb
Newmarch .... Ross Livingstone
Mackereth .... Peter Kenny
Lucas .... Derek Waring
Stephens .... Jonathan Keeble
Shelley .... Kim Wall
Keats' Mother .... Jane Whittenshaw
Charles Cowden Clark .... David Timson
Richard Abbey .... Geoffrey Whitehead
Kean .... Gavin Muir
George Keats .... Paul Jenkins
Keats as a boy .... Jonathan Newman
Anne Matthew .... Melanie Hudson
Leigh Hunt .... Ian Masters
Caroline Matthew .... Alison Reid

Director Richard Wortley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1995.

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