The Doctor Who Survived The Atomic Bomb - Episode 5.

The Doctor Who Survived the Atomic BombThe true story of Aidan MacCarthy. An Irish doctor who survived Dunkirk, a torpedoed prison ship, and 3 and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war. A man who was 1 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 Five: The PrisonerIt is March 1942. Aidan MacCarthy is a prisoner of the Japanese in Java. The Imperial Guards have given way to more brutal captors. A Wing Commander is executed by firing squad in front of the assembled prisoners. MacCarthy is beaten unconscious for saluting a monkey. And with no medicines, no supplies, and men dying of dysentery around him, he does what he has always done. He finds a way. Maggot soup as protein supplement. Riceballs injected with yeast cultures smuggled between camps. A tin of sausages buried for Christmas morning that turns out to contain asparagus tips. This is the story of a doctor who refused to be beaten by circumstances that would have broken most men.Episode Six coming soon.