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Health Service

Episode 9 of 18

Aidan Crawley interviews doctors and patients about the National Health Service and the problems connected with it. He follows two doctors on their rounds. (1954)

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Wed 27 Oct 1954 21:00

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Broadcaster Aidan Crawley, reporting in this programme, once worked for the Balkan intelligence service and was a fighter pilot during the Second World War. He was shot down and captured by German forces in the Western Desert, and held at a prisoner of war camp in Germany. However, he tunnelled under the perimeter and escaped as far as Switzerland before being recaptured by the Gestapo.

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  • Wed 27 Oct 1954 21:00

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