A Fortunate Man by John Berger
John Berger’s moving account of a rural GP looking after his patients in Gloucestershire. Starring Adrian Scarborough.
**** John Berger joins 4 Extra’s 100 Club, born 5th November 1926. He died in 2017 aged 90.
In 1966, art critic and writer John Berger and Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, spent several months shadowing a GP in The Forest Of Dean.
The resulting book published a year later, was A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor - a moving meditation on society, the doctor-patient relationship and how we value a life.
Dramatised by Matthew Broughton
The Writer .... Peter Marinker
The Doctor .... Adrian Scarborough
Miriam .... Barbara Flynn
Harry .... Joe Sims
Timid Woman .... Carys Eleri
Black Haired Woman .... Scarlett Courtney
With the voices of:
Dorothy Burley,
Kevin and Karen Wellham
Anne Childs
Robin Harris
Recorded by the Reading the Forest project
Director: John Norton
A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2020.
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Broadcasts
Sat 27 Jun 202015:00BBC Radio 4- Sat 10 Sep 202215:00BBC Radio 4
- Tue 25 Feb 202515:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 25 Feb 202521:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 26 Feb 202505:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 3 Nov 202615:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 3 Nov 202621:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 4 Nov 202605:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
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