The Doctor Who Survived the Atomic Bomb - Episode 1.

The Doctor Who Survived the Atomic BombThe true story of Aidan MacCarthy. An Irish doctor who survived Dunkirk, a torpedoed prison ship, and three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war. A man who was one mile from the epicentre when the atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki. And survived.A tale of courage, endurance, and an extraordinary will to survive. A story so remarkable it deserves to be on the big screen.Five episodes. One extraordinary life.Episode One.It begins on a rugby pitch in County Kildare in the spring of 1930. Aidan MacCarthy is seventeen years old, in his final year at Clongowes Wood College. The following autumn he will enter medical school in Cork. The future looks ordinary and full of promise. He has absolutely no idea what is coming. This episode tells the story of who Aidan MacCarthy was before the war found him. Where he came from, how he was shaped, and how that prepared him for an extraordinary series of events that would test most men beyond the limits of endurance.Subscribe now. Episode Two coming soon.