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Dr Giles Yeo discovers how doctors and patients at Royal Papworth hospital achieved the seemingly impossible - the first successful heart transplant in the UK. He meets some of the longest-living heart transplant patients, celebrity patient Eddie Large and finds out what the future could hold.

29 minutes

Last on

Mon 25 Jun 201819:00
BBC Two

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Music Played

  • The Clash

    London Calling

Credits

PresenterGiles Yeo
ProducerMartin Friend
Executive ProducerDiana Hare

Broadcasts

  • Wed 20 Jun 201819:00
    BBC One East & Cambridgeshire only
  • Mon 25 Jun 201819:00
    BBC Two

Featured in...

  • NHS at 70

    A series of programmes spotlighting the pioneering work of NHS hospitals