Programme Index

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 6^th Oct 2020, 21:00 on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: Sat 24^th Oct 2020, 01:15 on BBC Two Wales HD

Available for 12 months

The award-winning series returns to show more pioneering work from some of the UK’s top surgeons. A patient’s body is drained of blood to remove life-threatening clots in her lungs Show more

Contributors

Narrator:: Shaun Dooley
Executive Producer:: Jo Hughes
Executive Producer:: Ros Ponder
Executive Producer:: Richard Bond
Series Producer:: Daniel Barry
Director:: Alex Kohler
Editor:: Alex Hay
Production Manager:: Isabelle Burn
Director:: Nick Shaw
Director:: Rohan Latchman
Director:: Howard Holloway
Producer:: Emily Bunt
Production Company:: Dragonfly Film and Television

Genres

FactualHealth & Wellbeing

Formats

Documentaries

Brand

Series

Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Series 3

Episode 2

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 13^th Oct 2020, 21:00 on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: Sat 31^st Oct 2020, 03:00 on BBC Two Wales

Available for 12 months

Following marathon procedures at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals in Cambridge. Two surgeons and a team of 25 work for 18 hours to salvage a high-risk procedure. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:: Shaun Dooley
Executive Producer:: Jo Hughes
Executive Producer:: Ros Ponder
Executive Producer:: Richard Bond
Series Producer:: Daniel Barry
Director:: Alex Kohler
Editor:: Katherine Lee
Production Manager:: Isabelle Burn
Director:: Nick Shaw
Director:: Rohan Latchman
Director:: Howard Holloway
Producer:: Emily Bunt
Production Company:: Dragonfly Film and Television
Editor:: Barrie Pease

Genres

FactualHealth & Wellbeing

Formats

Documentaries

Brand

Series

Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Series 3

Episode 3

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 20^th Oct 2020, 21:00 on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: Sat 7^th Nov 2020, 03:00 on BBC Two Wales HD

Available for 12 months

Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s hospitals perform a high-risk double lung transplant and complex neurosurgery, where a slip of a scalpel could cause paralysis. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:: Shaun Dooley
Executive Producer:: Jo Hughes
Executive Producer:: Ros Ponder
Executive Producer:: Richard Bond
Series Producer:: Daniel Barry
Director:: Alex Kohler
Editor:: Simon Mason
Editor:: Katherine Lee
Production Manager:: Isabelle Burn
Director:: Nick Shaw
Director:: Rohan Latchman
Producer:: Emily Bunt
Production Company:: Dragonfly Film and Television
Editor:: Barrie Pease

Genres

FactualHealth & Wellbeing

Formats

Documentaries

Brand

Series

Surgeons: At the Edge of Life

Series 3

Episode 4

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 27^th Oct 2020, 21:00 on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: Sat 14^th Nov 2020, 02:50 on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

Available for 12 months

Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth hospitals face a dilemma. Do the high risks of an operation outweigh the risk of not treating their patients' serious conditions? Show more

Contributors

Narrator:: Shaun Dooley
Executive Producer:: Jo Hughes
Executive Producer:: Ros Ponder
Executive Producer:: Richard Bond
Series Producer:: Daniel Barry
Director:: Alex Kohler
Production Manager:: Isabelle Burn
Director:: Nick Shaw
Director:: Rohan Latchman
Producer:: Emily Bunt
Production Company:: Dragonfly Film and Television
Editor:: Daniel Goldthorp
Editor:: Barrie Pease

Genres

FactualHealth & Wellbeing

Formats

Documentaries

Brand

Series