By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail
Published: 00:02 BST, 8 May 2019 | Updated: 00:41 BST, 8 May 2019
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24 Hours In A&E
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Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life
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With its trademark shameless sentimentality, 24 Hours In A&E (C4) returned to show us the life-and-death medical dramas that were unfolding on the day of Harry and Meghan's wedding in May last year.
Inevitably, the stories that emerged were all about patients in long, loving relationships. You almost wonder whether the producers keep a warehouse full of suitable victims, ready to injure them as the narrative demands.
John was 92 and had taken a very unfortunate nosedive off his stairlift. He and his wife of 66 years, Maggie, had been watching the telly coverage from Windsor moments earlier and reminiscing about their own wedding in 1952.
24 Hours In A&E detailed the life-and-death medical dramas unfolding on the day of Harry and Meghan's wedding
'We had canapes,' declared Maggie proudly, 'which we'd never even heard of back then.'
On the front desk at St George's Hospital, South-West London, the receptionists were glued to the radio, taking bets on the colour of the Queen's hat and who the celebrity guests would be. The cameras shot rapid glances around the wards, eavesdropping on patients in the waiting room and fretful relatives keeping vigil at bedsides.
In contrast to the sensation of boredom that pervades most hospitals, there's a constant implication here that intense excitement is about to erupt.
It arrived with an air ambulance and a 'code-red' alert, as a 74-year-old man was brought in suffering from multiple fractures. He had fallen off a ladder onto concrete while cleaning the upstairs windows and smashed his pelvis.
