Review

by David Butcher

This comes from the people behind One Born Every Minute and it’s one of those beautifully made, very moving hospital documentaries that leaves you emotionally wrung out but uplifted.



We’re at the extraordinary Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where several families are, as David Tennant says on the narration, “dealing with life at its most fragile”. The main story revolves around 14-year-old Charlie, a keen cricketer who has been in urgent need of a liver transplant for eight months. In the end, his father Chris volunteers to donate part of his own liver and from there a heart-rending story about parenthood, stoicism and medical brilliance sweeps us up and won’t let go.



