bedlam (EPISODE 2: CRISIS DIRCTED BY PADDY WIVELL)

THE GARDEN FOR CHANNEL 4 (2013)

The world's oldest psychiatric institution - the South London and Maudsley - opens its doors in a four-part documentary series challenging the myths, taboos and stigma around mental illness in Britain today. 'Crisis' is based in a short-stay emergency ward for patients in crisis. It's run like A&E but for people with mental illness. Cameras were granted access for the first time to a world where psychiatrists and nurses take critical decisions about risk every day.

‘Brilliant TV’ - The Guardian

‘It's gripping, dramatic, often troubling television’ - Radio Times

Photography by Richard Ansett