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About A YOUNG DOCTORS NOTEBOOK & Episode Guides

About A YOUNG DOCTORS NOTEBOOK & Episode Guides


A Young Doctor's Notebook Premiered on Sky Arts on December  06, 2012



About the Show:
Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm star in the latest instalment of Sky Arts' acclaimed Playhouse Presents strand. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's collection of short stories A Country Doctor's Notebook, the series follows a recently-graduated young medic (Radcliffe) who is forced to say farewell to life in bustling Moscow to take up a post as a doctor in a small, remote hospital a thousand miles from the capital, and half a day's journey from the nearest shop.

Hamm plays the young doctor 17 years on, who finds his old diary while answering to the authorities about self-prescribing morphine. He has a series of comic exchanges with his young and inexperienced self, mocking him for his youthful looks and guiding him through his early difficulties on the job.

Fresh from achieving exceptional grades at the Imperial Moscow University, the naïve and freshfaced young doctor soon discovers he has a tough act to follow. Portraits and busts of his predecessor, the wizened Leopold Leopoldovich, fill the surgery's rooms and he is spoken of with great reverence by midwives Anna and Pelageya and the feldsher (Adam Godley). They show little faith in the new doctor who they barely believe is old enough to be qualified, whose surgery robes drag on the floor and who they remind to brush his teeth before bed.

The nervous doctor quickly finds himself out of his depth, sneaking off to examine text books during a tricky birthing and creating a gruesomely bloody scene when he is required to extract a rotten tooth.

A witty look at the young doctor's isolation and struggle to be taken seriously by his fellow staff and frustratingly backwards patients, this bleakly comic four-part drama proves humour can come from the unlikeliest of places. With brilliant performances from Radcliffe, Hamm and Godley, it also provides a unique and lively take on Bulgakov's short stories.

Cast:

Actor’s name

Character’s name

Daniel RadcliffeYoung Doctor
Jon HammOlder Doctor
Rosie CavalieroPelageya
Adam GodleyThe Feldsher
Vicki PepperdineAnna

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Episode 1: Episode One (Dec/06/2012)
A doctor finds his old diary while answering to the authorities about self-prescribing morphine. He has a series of comic exchanges with his young and inexperienced self, mocking him for his youthful looks and guiding him through his early difficulties on the job.

Episode 2: Episode Two (Dec/13/2012)
The inexperienced younger doctor is forced to carry out the operation of his career. His older self does little to ease his nerves.

Episode 3: Episode Three (Dec/20/2012)
Stomach pain pushes despairing doctor Daniel Radcliffe to desperate lengths. His older self, Jon Hamm, suffers the unsavoury effects of his addiction.

Episode 4: Episode Four (Dec/27/2012)
Doomed doctor Daniel Radcliffe spirals into dark hallucinations as his older self tries to stop him destroying his life.

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