Breathtaking
Joanne Froggatt is the frontline Covid consultant in this shocking drama based on Rachel Clarke's unflinching memoir, Breathtaking, about how the real crisis unfolded in the NHS.
- 2024-2024
- 1 season
- Drama
Joanne Froggatt is the frontline Covid consultant in this shocking drama based on Rachel Clarke's unflinching memoir, Breathtaking, about how the real crisis unfolded in the NHS.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2024
Episode 1
Containment
46 mins
It's the lead up to the UK's first Covid-19 national lock-down in early 2020. Acute medicine consultant Dr Abbey Henderson and NHS staff struggle to cope with rising numbers of Covid-19 patients. Soon hospital staff begin to fall ill, and shifting guidelines force doctors to make difficult choices.
Episode 2
Delay
48 mins
Dr Abbey Henderson moves away from her family to protect them from Covid-19. As patients get sicker, Abbey and the team take on the Covid-19 pandemic, stretching each of them to their limits. Their reality doesn't match official rules and government policy.
Episode 3
Mitigation
48 mins
Dr Abbey Henderson and the NHS team deal with a new Covid-19 winter wave. Since early March 2020, now into January 2021 and a third national lock-down, the pressure becomes unmanageable. Abbey takes action to voice the pandemic's full effect on the NHS.
