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The NHS Front Line

Recordings with frontline staff at Bradford Royal Infirmary, taking you behind the scenes on the wards as they plan for the onset of COVID-19 and then cope as the patients arrive.

Radio 4,10 episodes

Episodes

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Week 1 on the covid wards
A new series taking you inside the UK's Covid-19 wards and all recorded by medical staff.
26 Mar 2020,37 mins
Week 2 on the covid wards
Episode two on the Covid wards and doctors and nurses are also falling sick with the virus
31 Mar 2020,37 mins
Week 3 on the covid wards
Covid wards staff have to tell relatives they cannot see dying patients.
07 Apr 2020,38 mins
Week 4 on the covid wards
In this episode doctors ask patients on the Covid-19 wards to test possible treatments.
14 Apr 2020,37 mins
Week 5 on the covid wards
A senior NHS doctor's been recording on the wards for Radio 4. Winifred Robinson presents.
21 Apr 2020,38 mins
Week 6 on the covid wards
Stories of love and hope from Bradford's Covid wards as medical staff battle to save lives
28 Apr 2020,38 mins
Week 7 on the covid wards
A senior NHS doctor's been recording on the wards for Radio 4. Winifred Robinson presents
05 May 2020,38 mins
Week 8 on the covid wards
This episode tracks how the virus is spreading across the UK today.
12 May 2020,39 mins
Week 9 on the covid wards
What happens to patients discharged from hospital covid wards?
19 May 2020,37 mins
Week 10 on the covid wards
An 18-year-old fights for her life as Covid-19 takes hold.
26 May 2020,36 mins