Bryn Higgins
London Hospital 1909 (aka BBC’s Casualty 1909)
Starring
Sarah Smart Charity Wakefield Nicholas Farrell William Houston
Production Company Stone City Films
Broadcaster BBC 1
Casualty 1909 is the latest 6-part series for the highly successful Casualty 1900s strand on BBC 1.
Dramatised from original hospital records, private papers and newspaper stories Casualty 1909 is set in the London Hospital in the dangerous, desperately poor East End. Revolution is in the air. Anarchists are suspected of ‘outrages’, Suffragettes are violently protesting, the hospital itself is under attack from animal rights activists. The London is on the frontline in an age of radical change.
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