Series
Saving Lives in Cardiff
Documentary
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.
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Seasons & episodes
Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make.
1Episode 120 Aug 2024 · 58m · ★ 10.0At 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.
2Episode 227 Aug 2024 · 58m · ★ 10.0Paediatric 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.
3Episode 33 Sept 2024 · 59m · ★ 10.0Two 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.
4Episode 410 Sept 2024 · 59m · ★ 10.0Eye 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.
5Episode 517 Sept 2024 · 58m · ★ 10.0Paediatric 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.
6Episode 624 Sept 2024 · 58m · ★ 10.0A 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.'
Details
- First aired
- 20 Aug 2024
- Last aired
- 14 May 2025
- Status
- Returning Series
- Language
- English
- Network
- BBC One, BBC Two
- Episodes
- 12
Cast
Rakie AyolaSelf - Narrator
