Saving Lives in Cardiff (2024)
Synopsis
Life-saving operations, difficult dilemmas. Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make before tackling the day job of changing people’s lives.
First Air Date: 2024-08-20
Last Air Date: 2025-05-14
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 12
Networks: BBC One, BBC Two, BBC One Wales, BBC Two Wales
Top Cast
- Rakie Ayola as Self - Narrator
Seasons
Series 1 (2024)
Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Episode 1
At Wales’s biggest hospital, neurosurgeon George Eralil operates on a 19-year-old with a rare brain tumour, and vascular consultant Lewis Meecham faces a wave of emergency cases.
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Ep. 2: Episode 2
Paediatric surgeon Oliver Jackson fights to ensure surgery for a 17-week-old baby triplet goes ahead. And a man who was the victim of an attack has an operation to restore his sight.
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Ep. 3: Episode 3
Two maxillofacial surgeons team up to rebuilds a 19-year-old’s face after removing a tumour, and consultant Aarti Sharma fights to give a mother with incurable cancer more time with her four children.
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Ep. 4: Episode 4
Eye surgeon Magdalena Popiela fights to save a woman’s sight, and for orthopaedic surgeon Clare Carpenter, a wave of emergencies add pressure to an already full day of surgery.
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Ep. 5: Episode 5
Paediatric surgeon Selena Curkovic is determined to make a life-changing operation happen for an eight-year-old boy, and a spinal surgeon must decide which of two patients gets surgery first.
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Ep. 6: Episode 6
A breast cancer patient and her surgeon of nine years hope a third operation means she can live life fully again, and three surgeons remove a tumour that is a 'ticking time-bomb.'
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