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‘In 1948 a dream was born: a National Health Service. In 1985 the dream is in tatters.’ This was how Paul Unwin and Jeremy Brock began their proposal to the BBC for a hospital series based in an accident and emergency department. They pitched a document which ‘read like a manifesto’ (Kingsley 1993:4).
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© 2013 Patricia Holland, Hugh Chignell and Sherryl Wilson
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Holland, P., Chignell, H., Wilson, S. (2013). Who’s the Casualty? Popular Programmes. In: Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313225_11
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