Show Notes
From the team behind Project Mind Control comes a new series, The Surgeon of St Helena. Join journalist Luke Jones as he investigates the arrival of a rogue surgeon on one of the world's most remote islands.
St Helena is a small British island in the South Atlantic, over 1000 miles from the nearest landmass. It is famous for hosting Napoleon in exile, and boasts the world's oldest living land animal, Jonathan the tortoise, as one of its residents.
But this tiny British Overseas Territory has been gripped with scandal. When an orthopedic surgeon arrived in 2015 he was supposed to revolutionise care on the island. Instead he caused unimaginable harm.
In Episode 1: The Bone Man, Luke meets retired Met police officers Bernard and Sandra, to hear why they were summoned to this remote island in the South Atlantic at the height of Covid. It was all to investigate one man… Dr Sergio Villatoro Bran.
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