Series 1

Series 1 (2024)

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


Episodes: 6

Star Cast: Rakie Ayola ,



Episodes List

Ep.1 Episode 1

Air Date: 2024-08-20

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.

Ep.2 Episode 2

Air Date: 2024-08-27

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.

Ep.3 Episode 3

Air Date: 2024-09-03

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.

Ep.4 Episode 4

Air Date: 2024-09-10

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.

Ep.5 Episode 5

Air Date: 2024-09-17

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.

Ep.6 Episode 6

Air Date: 2024-09-24

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.'