Inside Harley Street

Inside Harley Street (3 x 60) will look inside the hidden and exclusive world of private medicine, to tell the stories of the people who conduct their business behind the facades of the area’s elegant Georgian terraces.
　　Laced with humour and studded with historical facts, the series combines observational narratives with interviews that tell stories from both the patients’ and the doctors’ points of view. It also features local characters - a shopkeeper, an estate agent and a cycle courier - who give their perspective on life on Harley Street. The films examine our attitudes to health and questions what happens when the patient is a customer and health is a consumer product that can be bought and paid for.
　　As well as being a centuries’ old institution, the Harley Street area is simultaneously a mirror for very contemporary concerns: the first episode is about private healthcare, the second about cosmetic medicine and the third about complementary and alternative medicine.