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Episode 1

Follow the activities of hospital personnel and a suspicious chief inspector.

Episode 2

See how a forgotten incident keeps rearing its menacing head.

Episode 3

See how the intertwined fates of doctors, nurses, spouses and a police inspector converge.

About Breathless

In 1961 London, when abortion was illegal and the Pill a rare commodity, charismatic surgeon Otto Powell (Jack Davenport, the Morning Show) presides over a busy hospital gynecology ward. With a passionate commitment to the women he treats, Powell provides safe (and highly illegal) abortions in private practice. But it turns out he’s a swag doctor hiding his own dark secret.

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