From Doctor To Patient (Part Two)
Season: 7 Episode: 28
Dr. James Pownall's story is one of Victorian Britain's most remarkable mental health cases. A respected surgeon, asylum owner and former mayor of Calne, he suffered recurring bouts of severe mental illness that transformed his personality.
CAST
Lucretia Pownall - Cerise Reed
Sergeant Pope - Guy Pass
Patient Notes - Andrea Reid
Dr Davey - Steve Sheperd
Inquest - Sam Roberts
Louisa Cook - Carrie Ball
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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England.
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SOURCES
Devizes & Wiltshire Gazette 3 Dec 1840
Bristol Mercury 12 Dec. 1840
Gloucester Quarter Sessions 7th July 1849
Gloucestershire Trinity Sessions: Renewal of Dr Fox’s License. Gloucester Journal 5th July 1851
Commission of Lunacy. The Times 14th June 1852
Ancestry
National Library of Medicine
Swindon Advertiser & North Wiltshire Chronicle 24th Oct 1859
The History of the Old Private Lunatic Asyum at Fishponds, Bristol 1740– 1859. Bristol: University of Bristol. Phillips HT (1973)
A History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Bristol: J W Arrowsmith. Smith GM (1917)
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