- Radio Times
- Review by:
- Emma Sturgess
Call the Midwife may have finished for now, but the combination of nostalgia and medicine remains potent. Award-winning drama The Indian Doctor, set in the south Wales valleys in 1964, is on a smaller scale: as the village GP, Dr Sharma (Sanjeev Bhaskar) seems to be responsible for everything from eye tests to pastoral youth care and advice on romance, and is supported almost every step of the way by his wife Kamini (Ayesha Dharker).
The new series opens with his mother-in-law Pushpa (Indira Joshi) arriving from a smallpox-stricken India and, in a piece of casting that should reap comedic rewards, Mark Heap is settling in as the very serious new vicar.
About this programme
1/5. A smallpox epidemic in India prompts Prem's mother-in-law to visit her daughter in Trefelin, Wales, and the husband of whom she does not approve. Meanwhile, local evangelist minister Herbert Todd struggles to keep his teenage daughter Verity under control, and receptionist Gina tries to get her baby baptised. Comedy drama, starring Sanjeev Bhaskar.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Prem Sharma
- Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Kamini Sharma
- Ayesha Dharker
- Herbert Todd
- Mark Heap
- Megan Evans
- Mali Harries
- Emlyn Dawkins
- Alun ap Brinley
- Gina Nicolli
- Naomi Everson
- Sian Davies
- Erica Eirian
- Verity Todd
- Naomi Battrick
- Pushpa Bakshi
- Indira Joshi
- Owen Griffiths
- Ifan Huw Dafydd
- Dan Griffiths
- Jacob Oakley
- Ceri Joseph
- Dafydd Hywel
- Dafydd Lewis
- Rhys ap William
- Mary Lewis
- Sara Lloyd
Crew
- Director
- Gwennan Sage
- Executive Producer
- Tom Ware
- Executive Producer
- Deep Seghal
- Producer
- Eryl Phillips
- Writer
- Nicholas Martin
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