24 Hours in A&E

On the day of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in May 2018, cameras tracked patients arriving at St George’s Hospital in south‑west London. One of them, David, was flown in by air ambulance to the emergency department after falling from a ladder.

The programme is a documentary‑style episode that installs cameras throughout St George’s Hospital in south‑west London, tracking the movements of patients on a very particular day. It captures the everyday flow of a busy NHS facility while the nation is focused on a high‑profile royal event. The footage was recorded on 19 May 2018, the day Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married. Amid the celebrations, the cameras follow a range of patients receiving care, and one storyline centres on a man called David. He suffers a fall from a ladder and, as the cameras continue to roll, he is air‑lifted to the hospital by an ambulance that arrives from the sky. The episode therefore juxtaposes the public excitement of the wedding with the quieter, urgent moments that occur inside the hospital walls. By keeping the lens on David’s emergency and the routine of other patients, the programme offers a glimpse of how ordinary medical work proceeds even when the country’s attention is elsewhere. The use of continuous camera work aims to give viewers an unfiltered look at the hospital’s activity on that notable day.