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A Young Doctor's Notebook Premiered on Sky Arts on December  06, 2012

A Young Doctor’s Notebook is a four-part comedy drama based on a collection of short stories by the celebrated Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. The drama recounts Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical experiences as a young doctor working in the small village of Muryovo at the dawn of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Recounting from his notebooks, the Doctor considers his life and career as he tries to treat the patients of a village that is struggling to enter the modern age. Dealing not only with the superstitious and poorly educated patients but with his own inner demons, the doctor reveals doubts about his own competence and struggles with the immense burden of medical responsibility.

Jon Hamm takes on the role of the older doctor, who has a series of bleakly comic exchanges with his younger self, played by Daniel Radcliffe.

Jon Hamm said: “I am thrilled to get the opportunity to work on such rich source material with such fantastically talented people whose work I greatly respect, and to continue the relationship with Sky who have taken such good care of Mad Men since acquiring it. I have been watching "Bridget Jones's Diary" on infinite loop, and I think I've finally got this accent thing sorted...”

Daniel Radcliffe added: "I have been an obsessive Bulgakov reader for a couple of years now so when the opportunity to become involved in this project came up, I could barely contain my excitement. The book is funny, grotesque and heartfelt in equal measure and I look forward to working with a great group of people to help bring it to life".

Mikhail Bulgalov is widely considered to be one of the finest Russian writers of all time. His allegorical and most famous novel The Master and Margarita has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
A Young Doctor's Notebook is the most recent addition to our critically acclaimed Playhouse Presents... strand, which has already seen performances from stars including Emma Thompson, Alison Steadman, David Tennant and Sir Tom Jones, in his first acting role.

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The young Doctor being told about his predecessor, Leopold Leopoldovich was bizarre as they loved to use his name and his first patient being pregnant was amusing as he couldn't see during training but pulling the tooth was disgusting

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Growing a beard to look more like Leopold Leopoldovich was crazy and using a blunt saw to amputate the leg was sick

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That has to be the worst tracheotomy ever and the amount of blood with each treatment was disturbing

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Knocking on the door to tell him to go back to bed was bizarre as he was ill in bed before he knocked

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I thought they were talking about the death of a child at the start not a horse and I'm not surprised he was worried about the upcoming inspection as they might discover the shortfall in morphine

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The young doctor suffering withdrawal symptoms from his morphine addiction was understandable and accidentally shooting himself in the foot was amusing but ending his relationship with Pelageya and confesses his feelings to Natasha was crazy as she was spoken for

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The older doctor trying to write an opera without the letter J because it was broken on his typewriter was going to be hard and Pelagaya being critically ill was terrible as the young doctor was to busy being infatuated with Natasha

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The young doctor suggesting the burn Pelagaya's body because the ground was frozen was a little insensitive and choosing the morphine rather than save the victims when the train was derailed was a little predictable

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Who would of thought the young doctor was doing a live show every night while filming the second season