Michael Portillo visits the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot, Hampshire. Almost 140 years ago, the building acted as a response to the world's first modern war, the Crimean, when soldiers suffered terrible injuries on a horrific scale never been seen before. Closed for the past 22 years, Michael is allowed inside to learn of the far-reaching legacy of the extraordinary medical innovations that took place there, discovering that the ability to surgically alter human bodies is not necessarily a modern phenomenon.
Michael Portillo's Abandoned Britain was broadcast on SBS ONE at Tuesday 12 February 2019, 09:30.
