"Can You Hear Me?" | |
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Doctors episode | |
Episode no. | Episode 3955 |
Directed by | Peter Eryl Lloyd |
Written by | Toby Walton |
Featured music | |
Editing by | Simon Prentice |
Original air date | 12 June 2020 |
Running time | 44 minutes |
"Can You Hear Me?" is an episode of the British television soap opera Doctors, broadcast on BBC One on 12 June 2020. It marks the first episode in soap opera history to be filmed solely using mobile devices, and was self-shot by cast members from their homes as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down production of Doctors. The episode centres around the colleagues of the fictional Mill Health Centre and St Phils hospital dealing with lockdown, and features appearances from relatives of the characters. The scenes take place after the colleagues have been to work, where they discuss the professional and personal impacts of the pandemic on their lives via video chat. The episode also covers regular character Ruhma Carter (Bharti Patel) suffering from COVID-19.