Brain Surgeons: Between Life and Death

How do our brains make us who we are? In every operation, surgeons are hoping to save a life. But they are also entering one of the mysterious places on earth – the inside of our heads. In this major new series, we follow patients undergoing life-changing brain surgery at the Neurological Centre in Southampton, one of Britain’s foremost neurosurgical units, where some of the most difficult and complex operations in the country are performed. These are operations that will have profound, inspiring and life-changing consequences for the people undergoing them. Using detailed computer-generated graphics, animating the patient’s real MRI scans, these films allow us to be with the surgeons at every stage of their work on the medical frontier revealing how the specific functions of their patients’ brains have been affected, bringing this strange and complex world to life in a more vivid way than ever before.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Alex Sutherland

Alistair Pegg

Edmund Coulthard

SERIES PRODUCERS

Vikki Miller

SERIES EDITORS

Leigh Brezeki

PRODUCERS

Laura Coquereau

DIRECTORS

Jack Macinnes

PRODUCTION MANAGERS

Michele Kimber

Nancy Rushforth

FIRST TX

September 2020

BROADCASTER

Channel 4