24 Hours in A&E has grown into a British television institution and is now in its 30th season. I was part of series two covering the life-or-death dramas taking place in a single 24-hour period at King's College Hospital's Emergency Department - the busiest A&E department in the country. This 14-part series won the RTS award for Best Documentary Series and was nominated for Best Factual series at BAFTA in 2013.
On the series I edit-produced episode one, ‘Rush Hour.’ During the shoot, I was a DV director filming patients in A&E and afterwards, when they often moved into complex, life-saving surgeries.
Nominated Best Factual Series BAFTA 2012
Winner Best Documentary series RTS 2012
‘Admirable, passionate, unexpectedly beautiful… The camera goes into the scanner with Kevin, it was wheeled along in Christopher’s wheelchair and then inside the flashing blue lights of the ambulance, 24 Hours in A&E’s camera-work has an inventive wooziness’
Caitlin Moran, The Times
Credits
C4 Commissioning Editor: Mark Raphael
Production Company: The Garden
Executive Producer: Nick Curwin & Tom MacDonald
Series Producer: Kirsty Cunningham
Line Producer: Steve Hunt
Producer Directors: Jo Abel, Leo Burley, Rita Daniels, Abigail Priddle, Lisa Smith
DV Director & Edit Producer: Nick Leader