Background

This is the story and juxtaposition of the two most notorious British physicians of the 20th Century, Dr Harold Shipman & Dr John Bodkin Adams. Comparing and contrasting the background, arrest, trial, legacy and psychopathology of both individuals interspersed with film footage and contemporaneous news items. 'Dial Medicine for Murder' is presented as a consultation with Dr Harry Brunjes & Dr Andrew Johns who first met as medical students at Guys Hospital followed by careers in general medicine and forensic psychiatry respectively.  

“THE SUBJECT MATTER IS SENSATIONAL…” The Times

  “ONE OF THOSE UNEXPECTED PLEASURES AT THE FRINGE.” The Arts Desk

  “A FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO THE PATHOLOGICAL MIND” TV Bomb

Dr Harry Brünjes & Dr Andrew Johns

Dr Harry Brünjes and Dr Andrew Johns met when they were both medical students at Guy’s Hospital. Harry then spent sixteen years as a clinician before transferring effectively to the City whilst Andrew became one of the leading forensic psychiatrists in the UK and has given evidence at least 100 times in murder trials and specfically to the Harold Shipman enquiry.  

Bizarrely Harry was a junior doctor at Eastbourne Hospital when Bodkin Adams was an in patient and where he died in 1983. Bodkin Adams was also a frequent visitor to Folkington Manor in the 1950s where Harry now lives... 

“THE TWO DOCTORS PRESENTING WERE STAGE NATURALS.”

“THE SHOW WAS OF A VERY HIGH QUALITY WITH VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE SPEAKERS.”

“THE WHOLE EVENT WAS BRILLIANT.”