Directors: John Strickland, Richard Laxton, Jon East
Script: Jed Mercurio
Photography: Nick Dance
Editors: David Barrett, Crispin Green
Music: John Lunn
Sound: Helen Dickson, Martin Beresford
Production Design: Paul Laugier
Casting: Beverley Keogh
Principal Cast: Max Beesley, Patrick Baladi, Keith Allen, Neve McIntosh, Susan Lynch
Producer: Jed Mercurio
Executive Producers: Mark Redhead, Gareth Neame
Production: Hat Trick Productions for BBC
Distribution: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
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First Broadcast: 10.11.2004, 21:00, BBC2, 1.7 mill.
Selected Filmography Jed Mercurio: The Legend of Tamworth Two, 2004; The Grimleys, 1999; Invasion: Earth, 1998; Cardiac Arrest, 1994.
People make mistakes – but when doctors do, the consequences can be deadly. Young doctor Rob Lake is new to the team of a hospital’s maternity ward, where he soon witnesses the cover-up of a serious case of malpractice. Is he to risk his career for a clean conscience? Foregoing cheap pathos and rushes to judgement, British serial medical drama "Bodies" is setting new standards for its genre, staying close to reality in its depiction of the conflicts and ethical dilemmas doctors have to face up to every day. Jed Mercurio, author and producer of the series, did not have to do much research in the ailing English health system: he himself spent four years as a doctor in a hospital.