This week - Quacks Series 1 Episode 1
Quacks is set in the 1840s, when medical science as we know it was still in its infancy, when doctors were just as likely to kill their patients as cure them, when they experimented on themselves and each other. The show explores an era of surgery when the operating theatre was just that: a theatre, full of spectacle and showmanship, where people would come to watch revolutionary procedures, or a surgeon try to beat his amputation speed record.
It stars Mathew Baynton as a fledgling psychiatrist, Rory Kinnear as an arrogant showman surgeon, Tom Basden as a hedonistic dentist turned anesthetist, Lydia Leonard as a headstrong social campaigner and Rupert Everett plays the head doctor.
Writer
James Wood
Director
Andy de Emmony
Producers
Imogen Cooper, Justin Davies, James Wood, Rachel Hillman and Ben Worsfield
BBC / Lucky Giant
Quacks is available on line at https://amzn.to/2DUzHIK
And available to buy on DVD here https://amzn.to/2DZ4WT8
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