The First New Heart

Christiaan Barnard scrubs up

Synopsis

In 1967, Dr Christiaan Barnard completed the world's first successful heart transplant. This factual drama, with Rupert Graves as Barnard, tells the story of this ground-breaking moment.

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Norman Shumway
played by Ben Miles
Adrian Kantrowitz
played by Darrell D'Silva
Christiaan Barnard
played by Rupert Graves

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14 February 2009

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