The Fragile Heart


The Fragile Heart is a BAFTA award-winning British medical drama television series created by Paula Milne and first aired on Channel 4 from 6 to 20 November 1996. The series nominated the Royal Television Society award for Best Drama Serial.

Story

Edgar Pascoe is a highly successful and charismatic cardiac surgeon. Pre-eminent in his field, he is the embodiment of the upper echelons of medicine: urbane, assured, supremely confident in his own abilities. But he is not infallible - either in the operating theatre or in his private life with his divided family.
Edgar's wife Lileth, a dedicated and compassionate country GP, is increasingly drawn to the holistic arts of healing still practiced in the East, but scorned by purveyors of Western technology. As their professional ideals and methods clash, so inevitably does their relationship. Nicola is Edgar's favoured child, ruthless and unscrupulous in her ambition to emulate her illustrious father.
But it is in China, heading a medical delegation, that Edgar is confronted by an ethical dilemma over the abuse of human rights and is forced into a painful moral awakening which will prove to affect every area of his life.

Cast


Actor		Role
Nigel HawthorneDr. Edgar Pascoe
Dearbhla MolloyDr. Lileth Pascoe
Helen McCroryNicola Pascoe
Dominic MafhamDaniel Pascoe
Robert Langford LloydDr. Maurice Denton
Sylvia ChangDr. Zhao Quing
Stewart OngDr. Chen
Pao Han LinWan Pu
John HartleyMrs. Youngman
Brenda CavendishMrs. Youngman
Gareth ArmstrongProfusionist
Marian McLoughlinMargaret Sedgely
Sebastian AbineriPeter Sedgley
Ian AspinallDilip
Adrian PangLin Ling Tian
Simon SlaterCalder
Eamon BolandDeviln
Terence KempMr. Bower-Kemp
Gordon GriffinFlanders
Hi ChingHang
Leader HawkinsDr. Manville
Gabrielle LloydNancy Manville
Diana PayanMrs. Lawson
Vincent MarzelloHugh Lyle

Award

The Fragile Heart was released on DVD on 8 October 2018.