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as the good professor muttered "where is the camera?" and moved, so that said camera could get a good shot of the brain in situ, the camera moved with him, resolutely behind his back. i can only assume that either the cameraman was also not equal to his task, or that his bosses had decided that the less medical footage they showed, the lower their chances of legal action.


as a milestone of television history, then, this was vaguely significant, probably less so than kenneth tynan saying fuck. i am sad to say, that it failed on both educational and entertainment grounds. when the germans and the one brave british doctor throwing his career to the wind were allowed to comment, on the structure of the body, on the procedures they were performing and how these related to common autopsy practise, i was rivited. who knew that diseased lungs actually stick to the ribcage? or how a heart under stress will grow itself larger, and the implications of this for the rest of the body? not i. but there was just not enough of this.
Sue Bailey