This first film in the returning BBC medical series concentrated on the work of one of the busiest and most pioneering neurosurgeons in the country, Henry Marsh. "You’re operating on people’s thoughts and feelings. It’s not just life and death, if an operation goes wrong, you change people."

YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS

BBC 1 9pm Monday 8th March 2004

Producer/Director: Geoffrey Smith

Henry Marsh: Consultant Neuro-surgeon.

" An extraordinary documentary."

The Guardian

" Tonights 'Panorama' asks what is the point of the BBC? If it's makers are looking for a straitforward answer they could simply watch 'Your Life In Their Hands'... an hypnotic piece of television."

The Independent on Sunday

"It is impossible to describe the wonder and intensity of this programme, an overwhelming documentary."

The Times

"Programme making of the highest order."

Sunday Telegraph

"if only all medical documentaries were filmed as thoughtfully and as sensitively as this one."

The Observer