Program Title
Bramwell, Series 4

Episode number:
1 2 3 4 5 6

Description
Robert Bramwell goes to the country estate of the brewery heiress. Finn comes back from Paris, demoralized by the low turn out to his lectures. He and Eleanor spend the night together. Robert Bramwell and Aubrey Savier are having a dueling courtship with Mrs. Costogon (brewery matron). Class and medical warfare ensue when an infant in Costogons care gets sick and Saviers non-surgical method seems to win the day - as well as her heart. Eventually, though, Bramwells surgery is proved the only effective way to keep the baby from dying. Back at the thrift, Marsham announces hes leaving; Eleanor retorts that shes engaged

Original broadcast date
1999-02-14

Cast	Characters
Jemma Redgrave	Dr. Eleanor Bramwell
David Calder	Robert Bramwell

Credits

Producer: Tim Whitby, Harriet Davison
Director: Tim Whitby, Paul Unwim, David Tucker, Paul Murton, Kate Cheeseman

Intro
BRAMWELL/Episode 5/Intro by Russell Baker

Our Bramwell stories are set in the 1890s -- the glorious final decade of the Victorian age.

It's a time when class distinctions are almost comically important. It often seems that every proper Englishman is looking for someone to look down on. The London medical establishment won't have Doctor Marsham on a hospital staff because he's a Scot. When Dr. Finn O'Neill presents his research at scientific conferences English doctors stay away in droves. Dr. O'Neill is Irish. Even among the gentry of purest English strain, there is a pecking order.

For example: The most socially correct place for a doctor to have offices is in Harley Street. Dr. Robert Bramwell, Eleanor's father, does not have offices in Harley Street. Therefore, as we'll see tonight, colleagues who do have offices in Harley Street feel entitled to treat him with contempt.

Robert is at the center of tonight's story. He is about to go visiting in very elegant company -- that is to say, among people who spend the day shooting birds by the dozen and looking down on people like Robert.



Episode number: 1 2 3 4 5 6




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