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The Guinea Pig Club

Geraldine James narrates a documentary about the Guinea Pig Club, a drinking club whose members were former WWII pilots who cheated death and had a disfigurement to prove it.

The Guinea Pig Club is an exclusive drinking club with gruesome initiation rights. You have to have been a WWII pilot, cheated death and have a disfigurement to prove it.

The president of the club was Archibald McIndoe, a plastic surgeon who pioneered experimental surgery in order to rebuild their faces and hands to give them a chance of a normal life.

The Guinea Pig Club's legacy could hold the key to trauma recovery today.

59 minutes

Last on

Sat 24 Apr 201023:50

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RoleContributor
PresenterGeraldine James
DirectorKaren Kelly

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