A perhaps perfect accidentally timed viewing as it incorporates elements from both Wars and neatly parallels the circumstances of burn out in both, the first experienced by John Wood who in WW1 shot himself rather than face any more trench warfare. In the second, Foyle's son Andrew (Julian Ovenden) faces burnout from simply flying too many hazardous missions (all his friends are dead) and he goes AWOL.
This is all set in and around a stately home now hospital for the burn victims being treated by novel saline solution, a real technique developed by Archibald McIndoe (who we know about as Anne Coates worked for him as a nurse). Bill Paterson plays the effervescent surgeon.
The storyline is also as sneaky and snaky as we have come to expect!
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