The Doctor Who Survived the Atomic Bomb - Episode 2.

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.Episode Two: Into the FireIt is 1939. Aidan MacCarthy has his medical degree and has made his way to London. War is coming and a decision has to be made. In a West End nightclub, a hostess flips a coin — and the course of MacCarthy's life is decided in an instant. He joins the RAF and within months finds himself in France as the German offensive tears through northern Europe. This episode follows MacCarthy from the chaos of the French retreat to the beaches of Dunkirk — where he tends the wounded under fire and waits, foxhole by foxhole, for a ship that may never come.Episode Three coming soon.