The Body in Question

Jonathan Miller qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1959 and having dabbled in comedy and drama (the chilling 1968 Omnibus film of Whistle & I'll Come To You springs to mind, as does his 1966 celeb-fest Alice in Wonderland), he wrote and presented this thirteen-part series, which aired from 06/11/1978. It attracted controversy and devotion alike, the former the result of his dissection of a human body, the latter due to a gorgeous montage of antique clocks and paintings filmed at the Greenwich Observatory, accompanied by a memorable radiophonic vocoder score from Peter Howell, The Greenwich Chorus