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- Cameras follow surgeons, anaesthetists, theatre staff and patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham's surgical unit, where surgeons push medical boundaries to the limit.
- British true crime documentary mini-series following the family of Anni Dewani as they hunt for the truth behind her mysterious murder while on honeymoon in South Africa in 2010.
- A ground-breaking look at the drama and emotion of a maternity unit, from the perspective of the parents-to-be and the maternity ward staff
- Observational documentary series revealing the dramas and dilemmas faced by staff of some of the UK's largest ambulance services on a daily basis.
- Tells the story of Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, two disabled cabaret artists who met in1989 and became the driving force behind Direct Action Network - whose protests pushed disability rights into the spotlight.
- "The Trial" is a brand-new, ground-breaking five-part series to be spread across one week on Channel 4. A fictional crime will be authentically tried by a team that includes eminent practicing QCs, a genuine judge, and a jury of 12 members of the public. The only actors include the accused--a man who is pleading not guilty for the murder of his wife--the deceased, and some of the witnesses. A thrilling hybrid of drama and documentary, "The Trial" aims to both hook viewers with the real twists and turns of a criminal murder trial and reveal the inner workings of the justice system as never seen before. Secrets of what being a juror entails will be revealed when cameras follow them into the deliberation room as they try to reach their verdict. The trial centers around the murder of 38-year-old Carla Davis, who was strangled to death in her own home. The accused is her estranged husband, Simon. The prosecution is led by Max Hill QC with junior barrister Michelle Nelson. Defendant Davis is represented by John Ryder QC and junior barrister Lucy Organ. Presiding is Judge Brian Barker CBE QC--formerly the most senior judge at the Old Bailey. Giving evidence at the trial will be forensic experts, police officers and eye witnesses as well as friends and relatives of both the deceased and the accused.
- Three unemployed families are each given a lump sum of £26,000 in return for coming off benefits to see if they have what it takes to improve their lives.
- Forced Out tells the shocking stories of the men and women who were discharged from the Army, Navy and RAF because of their sexuality and helped others still serving in secret, and who led the historic battle for the ban to be overturned.
- The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized after striking an underwater rock on January 13, 2012, This is a firsthand account, including cell phone footage, from passengers of this terrifying event.
- Each week, the miracle of birth meets cutting edge medicine at 3 of Birmingham's busiest maternity hospitals as parents and staff welcome the arrival of Britain's next generation.
- Sally Phillips investigates the ethical implications of the Down's syndrome screening test.
- Chris Packham sheds light on the magical underground world of three iconic British animals - badgers, water voles and rabbits - investigating wild burrows and creating full scale replicas too.
- Eight-part documentary series going behind the scenes at Birmingham Children's Hospital following the young patients, their families and the staff caring for them.
- Dr. Ochota travels to Uganda to investigate the story of the boy raised by monkeys, Fiji to uncover the truth behind a boy raised by chickens and the story of a girl believed to belong to a family of dogs in the Ukraine. Find out if these stories are true and if so can the doctor help these poor children.
- Dr Michael Mosley assembles 12 of the UK's leading medical experts to diagnose patients with life-changing symptoms that have so far baffled other doctors.
- Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock explores her own personal experiences of racism and colourism as a black woman in the UK, as well as looking at the wider race issues the country is facing.
- Former Formula 1 mechanic, Marc "Elvis" Priestley, gets up close and personal with some of the world's most fascinating amateur motor sports.
- Dinner parties can be minefields for adults. But what would happen if all the dinner party guests were aged around 11 years old? All of this is revealed in this insightful, funny, and poignant film. A group of 11-year-olds have a dinner party and discuss everything from family to politics, in this thought-provoking insight into what's important to today's young people.
- Staffordshire police officers describe with brutal honesty the challenges of policing in a climate of cuts and changing crime.
- 6 young mums join a potentially life-changing course run by entrepreneur Jess Lizama. Expert mentors guide them as they embark on a bid to supercharge their lives, as they live together and learn together the skills they need to succeed.
- Three convicted murderers submit themselves to a ground-breaking biological and psychological investigation to determine whether they truly had control over their actions, or if hidden factors destined them to kill.
- For most of us a funeral is traditionally a modest, somber affair, but there are some families who are prepared to go above and beyond to ensure their loved ones go out in style. Warm, funny and surprising, this film explores some of the UKs most extraordinary final goodbyes.
- It shines a light on the daily conversations teenagers and their parents have on life, love, friendships as the engaging teens open up during every day trips in the family cars.
- Patrick Kielty, an Irish Comedian, travels back to Northern Ireland to see how successful the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement has been 20 years later. Kielty voted for the agreement despite knowing that it meant release from prison for those convicted of his father's murder.
- Documentary series following West Midlands Ambulance Service at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of the crews, control room staff and managers as they deal with the biggest challenge to face the service.
- Gordon Buchanan makes an epic 25,000-mile journey around the centre of the world.
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- The day to day lifestyle of various dwarfs from around the world. Their struggles and their accomplishments, their work life and the personal life.
- The British-Kenian nature documentary filmer and ecological activist Joan Root was killed in her home in January 2006. Her activities made her a lot of enemies in the Lake Naivasha region. This documentary tries to find an answer to who has killed her.
- In 2012, hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey bringing devastation to it and New York City with high winds and powerful storm surge.
- The story of 12-year-old Mahendra Ahirwar from India, who has a rare muscle-wasting condition that means that he cannot stand or walk and his neck muscles are so weak his head hangs upside down.
- In its centenary year, Patrick Kielty discovers how the trauma of the past is shaping the future of Northern Ireland, and why some feel a united Ireland could be on the horizon.
- Neurosurgeons perform brain surgery on 20-year-old trainee army medic Cameron to remove a brain tumour. Cardiac surgeon Jorge Mascaro performs a huge operation on a 71-year-old woman.
- This edition explores how surgeons within the NHS endeavour to meet the needs of patients who require surgery to improve their very poor quality of life.
- In recent years, huge advances have been made in the surgical treatment of serious conditions that have developed in the womb. These groundbreaking interventions - often carried out in the first few years of life - have the power to dramatically increase life expectancy. But the risks are often high, and the surgeons who specialise in these procedures need to cope with the added pressure of wanting to get the best possible results for their patients' desperately anxious parents. Birmingham Children's Hospital has a reputation as a world-leading centre for complex paediatric procedures. Consultant paediatric cardiac surgeon David Barron is a specialist in heart conditions that are diagnosed before birth, and his patient, three-year-old Madison, has a rare condition which prevents blood from reaching her lungs - giving her low blood-oxygen levels, and impeding her growth and the development of her organs. To correct Madison's unusual anatomy, David must carry out an intricate 12-hour operation to reconstruct the blood supply between her heart and lungs. This is a rarely performed, multi-stage procedure that requires extraordinary stamina and skill on the part of the surgical team, and during which Madison's heart will be stopped altogether. Madison's body has compensated for being born without a proper arterial connection carrying blood from her heart to her lungs by relying on a network of tiny vessels called MAPCAs. We all have these vessels to allow for circulation while we are in the womb, but normally they become redundant after birth. In the operation, David will have to locate the minute MAPCAs in Madison's chest and combine them with her malformed artery, in order to build a new connection between her heart and lungs. A second surgical team is led by consultant paediatric urology and transplant surgeon Liam McCarthy - a specialist in conditions affecting the kidneys and bladder. Two-year-old Isaac's kidneys were damaged in the womb, and to avoid long-term dialysis, he needs a transplant. His father Lee is a match - so he will donate one of his healthy kidneys. He has never had doubts about that decision - after all, as he says, Isaac is "half of me", and this is a chance to make a drastic difference to the quality and length of his son's life. They both undergo surgery on the same day. Lee's kidney is removed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and rushed across the city to theatre at Birmingham Children's Hospital, ready for the transplant. Isaac's damaged kidneys will not be removed - instead, the donor kidney will be connected in an entirely new position, lower down in the abdomen. The challenge for Liam and consultant hepatobiliary and transplant surgeon Khalid Sharif is to fit this adult kidney safely into the body of a two-year-old, and to make the connections quickly, before the donor organ begins to degrade. If they succeed, they will dramatically improve the quality of Isaac's life and extend his life expectancy by many decades. Birmingham Children's Hospital is part of Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
- Tim Martin operates on a woman with a disease so rare, he is thought to be the first in the UK to attempt the procedure. Neurosurgeon Alex Paluzzi is taking on one of the toughest cases of his career too.
- At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, surgeons with highly specialised skills perform intricate operations that promise to be life-enhancing for their patients. When 44-year-old AnnMarie was just a toddler, she accidentally drank bleach, which caused severe damage. She has been struggling to cope with her badly scarred oesophagus ever since. AnnMarie has trouble swallowing and visits hospital several times a year to have her oesophagus stretched. It is a highly uncomfortable procedure in which a balloon is inserted into the oesophagus and inflated. Now AnnMarie has opted to have an oesophagectomy, even though the procedure is high risk and over 30 per cent of patients have serious post-operative complications. Her surgeon is Ewen Griffiths, one of the Queen Elizabeth's leading consultant upper gastro-intestinal surgeons, who has spent years mastering one of the most complex and risky operations in his field: an oesophagectomy. In this three-stage procedure, the patient's oesophagus - the 25-centimetre feeding tube, which joins the throat to the stomach - is removed and their own stomach is used to replace it. The procedure can last up to eight hours and involves three different operating sites in the neck, chest and abdomen. Consultant colorectal surgeon Simon Radley also performs highly specialised operations in his field: complex colorectal cancer. His patient is 64-year-old retired grandmother Hazel, who has a colon tumour that has spread into her liver and abdominal wall. Without the operation Hazel will have only a few months to live, but there is an outside chance that surgery could remove the cancer entirely and cure Hazel of her disease. It is not yet clear if the cancer has advanced into other internal organs and Simon will only find out once he operates. If it has spread further, then Simon knows he will not be able to remove it entirely. But if it is confined to the bowel, liver and abdominal wall Simon believes he might just get the result Hazel and her husband Alan are pinning their hopes on. The surgical teams need all their skill and years of experience to get the best possible results. As consultant upper GI surgeon John Whiting says, in demanding cases like these, "good enough actually isn't good enough".
- The second season of the groundbreaking show concludes with an episode focused on the work of surgeons in the fast-paced field of trauma surgery. With access to the emergency department and trauma theatres of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, the episode features some of the UK's top surgeons battling to make the difference between life and death for critically injured patients who arrive at the QE by land and air. The Queen Elizabeth receives 9,000 patients to its emergency department each month. Many of the most seriously injured can only be saved by urgent surgical intervention. To cope with these trauma cases, the QE has 140 consultant surgeons regularly on call, night and day. With no time to plan and often little or nothing known about a patient's medical history, surgeons must make life-critical, split-second decisions, while racing to perform operations that are no less demanding than their day-to-day elective cases. Consultant neurosurgeon Ismail Ughratdar has just minutes to operate to save the life of a 64-year-old woman who has a bleed on the brain after falling in the street. Blood is accumulating and putting pressure on her brain that is very likely to lead to permanent disability or death unless Ismail can perform a craniotomy to alleviate the pressure in time. As the QE is also the base for receiving all military casualties from overseas, surgeons, doctors, nurses and anaesthetists from the armed forces work alongside NHS staff in the hospital's unique major trauma service. Lessons drawn from the battlefield are especially useful when dealing with polytrauma patients - those brought in with multiple serious injuries. One of the leading consultant general surgeons at the QE, Catherine Powell, is also a commander in the Royal Navy. When a motorcyclist is rushed in by helicopter, she must decide whether to operate on his internal bleeding, or whether the badly dislocated shoulder that could cost him an arm is the most urgent priority.