← Saving Lives in Cardiff

Series 1

6 episodes · 2024

Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make.

  1. 1Episode 1

    20 Aug 2024 · 58 min

    10.0 (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.

  2. 2Episode 2

    27 Aug 2024 · 58 min

    10.0 (1)

    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.

  3. 3Episode 3

    03 Sep 2024 · 59 min

    10.0 (1)

    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.

  4. 4Episode 4

    10 Sep 2024 · 59 min

    10.0 (1)

    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.

  5. 5Episode 5

    17 Sep 2024 · 58 min

    10.0 (1)

    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.

  6. 6Episode 6finale

    24 Sep 2024 · 58 min

    10.0 (1)

    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.'