My Extremely Proud and Dignified Brother Porter known as
"XCABALX" has done other reviews I have examined, for example: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2022/08/cabal-on-paper-mask.html.
Now he has reviewed the new medical drama series Breathtaking. This new programme is set in a British NHS hospital
during the Covid 19 pandemic and has an illustrious wellspring in the form of
its writers. Rachel Clarke is somebody I probably met because she was a medical
student and junior doctor at the John Radcliffe while I was there. She has
written a fascinating book about being a doctor called Your Life in My Hands, see: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35223582.
Jed Mercurio is another former doctor who also wrote one of the best comedy
series I've ever seen, The Grimleys, see:
https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/07/grimlys.html. He wrote another medical drama called Cardiac Arrest that I never liked. I have actually not seen Breathtaking, so I'm breaking one of my
own rules reading a review of it. The series has brought back a lot of painful
memories for Cabal of health service under the jackboot of the pandemic
restrictions and the plight of those who suffered as a result of it... not to
mention as a result of the jackboot too! This is something I never experienced;
I was discharged eight years earlier. It makes me wonder how I would have coped
with it. I can see myself there. In a strange way I feel some misplaced guilt,
as if I've committed a dereliction of duty. This is a ridiculous emotion, but I
can't help it. Cabal praises the creators, including the third screenwriter Prasanna
Punawarajah and the director Craig Viveiros. The main character is played by Joanne
Froggatt. Source: https://dreamingspireart.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/breathtaking-a-review-of-itv-docu-drama-miniseries/.
Cabal touchingly dedicates the article to our Brother Porters we lost during
the pandemic and describes the shadow their tragedy casts on today's JR portering
department.
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