Breathless (UK)

Secrets, lies and passion smoulder beneath the glamorous and stylish world of the early 1960s, in this brand new drama. Breathless follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital, a world in which everything and everyone has their place. But underneath the shiny veneer simmers a cauldron of lies, deception and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex.

The series opens in 1961, a time when Britain was on the brink of the Sixties revolution - abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just becoming available to married women. Set in and around a busy Gynaecology unit, medicine becomes the perfect stage to play out the shifting and complex moral codes of early 1960s society.

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