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BBC to screen autopsy PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 17 May 2006
Leigh Holmwood
Wednesday May 17, 2006

The BBC is to follow the gory path trodden by Channel 4 and televise an autopsy.
The BBC will screen an autopsy, for what is thought to be the first time, in a series that follows the work of a pathologist.

Death Detectives, which will air on BBC3 later this year, will feature Dr Dick Shepherd as he undertakes his work in Liverpool and Leeds.

The five-part series will include Shepherd cutting open bodies and describing the experience, including the smell of the cadavers.

Channel 4 caused controversy in 2002 when it broadcast the first public autopsy in Britain for 170 years, performed by Dr Gunther von Hagens.

However, the BBC has made clear that the autopsies shown in the new series will be in the context of Dr Shepherd's work and will be "tonally" different to Channel 4's The Autopsy.

A spokesman described the series as a "striking piece of television".

"It is revealing and fairly uncompromising and something that a lot of people will not have seen before," he said. "It is not glammed up like the Channel 4 show and very different in tone. It is much more observational."

The BBC has previously screened other programmes about death, such as BBC2's How to Have a Good Death.

While this is thought to be the BBC's first on-screen autopsy, Channel 4 is no such stranger to the practice.

As well as The Autopsy it has also screened the four-part Anatomy for Beginners - in which Dr Von Hagens and pathologist John Lee dissected a number of cadavers - and Autopsy - Life and Death, in which the two discussed diseases with the aid of dissections.


 
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