They made history: The conquest of pain (script of BBC drama)

  • British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service
Date:
1959
Reference:
MS.8577
Part of:
<i>They made history</i>: scripts of BBC dramas
  • Archives and manuscripts

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About this work

Description

Documents relating to the BBC drama They made history: The conquest of pain, which recreated the first operation under anaesthetic in Europe, the amputation of a leg by Robert Liston (1794-1847) using ether.

The film was written and produced by Bill Duncalf, and drew on advice from Edwin Clarke and Frderick Poynter of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum.

The file contains:

First draft, entitled Milestones in Medicine: No. 1 The conquest of pain. Typescript, 102 pp.

Rehearsal script, entitled They Made History. Typescript, 53 pp. plus compliments slip.

Camera script, entitled They Made History. Typescript, 54 pp. (unnumbered title page, i-ii and 1-51).

Reviews: two cuttings, from the Daily Mail (13th March 1959) and The Listener (19th March 1959)

Publication/Creation

1959

Physical description

1 file Typescript.

Contributors

Acquisition note

Received by the Wellcome Library as accession no.307470. Transferred to Archives & Manuscripts department, 25 January 2008 (acc.1569) with existing library catalogue record deleted in November 2012.

Biographical note

Written and produced by Bill Duncalf.

Ownership note

Previously held in the Wellcome Library's History of Medicine biographies section on the open shelves.

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  • 1569