• The Audience
    One person with a life-changing decision to make
    turns to 50 strangers for help. For a week they are
    followed everywhere they go and witness everything
    they do. The Audience navigate through layers of
    heartache, resistance and revelations, as well as
    nights out, family dinners and cramped kitchens to
    get to the root of the problem and try to solve the
    dilemma.
  • The Midwives
    They see us at our most undressed. We trust them
    with our lives. But now midwives are facing the
    highest birthrate in 40 years. Pregnancies are
    more complicated and parents even more
    demanding. This is what it's really like to be a
    midwife in Britain today.
  • 24 Hours in A&E S2
    Winner of the RTS award for Best Documentary
    Series, 24 Hours in A&E is back with a brand
    new 14-part series. Each episode of this flagship
    project reveals the life-or-death dramas taking
    place in a single 24-hour period at King's College
    Hospital's Emergency Department, one of the
    busiest in the country.
  • Kicked Out Kids
    Mediators come to the aid of young people who
    risk being thrown out of home by their parents
    due to persistent bad behaviour. Among the
    the participants are 16-year-old Charlotte,
    who threw a party that turned out to be the final
    straw and 14-year-old Tyler, whose mother is
    threatening to have social services take him away.
  • The Kidnap Diaries
    A dramatised account of film-maker Sean
    Langan's kidnapping in 2008 while on a quest
    to become the first western journalist to film
    the Taliban training camps. In a bizarre meeting
    of East and West, the self-confessed adrenaline
    junkie strikes up an unlikely friendship with the
    deeply Islamic family holding him captive.
  • Crucifixion
    Two thousand years ago, Jesus was brutally
    executed. Over the centuries, the crucifixion
    symbol has become an object of devotion, bringing
    comfort to millions. Now it is being reinterpreted
    by Gunther von Hagens. Gory stunt, or something
    else? In this special for Easter Sunday on C4,
    as Gunther grapples with Christ's mortality,
    he is unexpectedly forced to confront his own.
  • Seven Dwarves
    Each year during pantomime season, regional
    theatres across the country employ dwarf actors
    to play the parts of the Seven Dwarves in Snow
    White. Last year, seven professional actors who
    were cast in the same production agreed to be
    filmed for an observational documentary series

24 Hours in A&E


Series 1

"One of those rare and life-enhancing wonders of television"


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TX Channel 4. 14 x 60mins. Weekly from Wedne sday 11th May 2011


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Series Producer/Directors: Amy Flanagan, Anthony Philipson


Executive Producers: Nick Curwin, Magnus Temple


A major new fourteen-part observational documentary series on Channel 4 reveals the daily life-or-death dramas of a London hospital's A&E department. Each episode of 24 Hours in A&E focuses on 24 hours in the Emergency Department of King's College Hospital - one of the capital's busiest trauma centres, which sees more than 300 patients per day. Intimate, revealing, raw and emotional, the series tells the gripping stories of people hanging between life and death, alongside the more everyday - and sometimes refreshingly comic, cases that A&E face daily, as well as the lives of the staff