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Last broadcast on Wed, 12 Aug 2009, 00:00 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Drama illuminating one doctor's pioneering efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.
Set against the background of the Armistice in November 1918 as millions of exhausted soldiers return home from the Great War, the film tells the little-known story of Dr James Niven, Manchester's medical health officer for thirty years, and his heroic efforts to combat a second wave of fatal influenza as it spreads across the city and the UK.
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More on this season of biology programmes at the BBC Press Office site
Dr James Niven and Matron
Dr James Niven (Bill Paterson) discusses the situation with Matron (Sara Parks).
Credits
- Dr James Niven
- Bill Paterson
- Ernest Dunks
- Mark Gatiss
- Sir Arthur Newsholme
- Paul Freeman
- MJ O'Donnell
- Kenneth Cranham
- Peggy Lytton
- Charlotte Riley
- Elsa Kershaw
- Olwen May
- Sam Lytton
- Jamie Spencer
- Stanford
- Ian Mercer
- Mrs Houlston
- Kate Ambler
- Lord Mayor
- John Branwell
- Matron
- Sarah Parks
- Mortician
- Will Tacey
- Journalist
- Gerard Fletcher
- Tommy
- Jack McMullen
- Superintendent
- Martin Oldfield
- Director
- Justin Hardy
- Producer
- Susan Horth
- Writer
- Peter Harness
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