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BBC marks health service anniversary

The BBC in the UK has ordered a raft of programming to mark the 70th anniversary of the country’s National Health Service.

The NHS season will run from June 25 to July 8 and will include programming across BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4, as well as on the corporation’s radio services.

The centrepiece of the season will be an as-yet untitled 90-minute event broadcast live on BBC2 from a hospital, which will explore the NHS’s work and its future.

Elsewhere, BBC1 will air Life on the Ward (working title, 2×60′) from BBC Studios, following celebrities spending time on some of the UK’s biggest hospital wards, and Matron, Medicine & Me (5×45′), an in-house series featuring five people who have reasons to thank the NHS.

BBC2’s output will include Hospitals that Changed the World (wt, 5×30′), also produced in-house, while BBC4 is preparing The People’s History of the NHS, a 3×60′ series that delves in to the service’s past.

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