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The forgotten story of the pioneering surgeon who healed disfigured airmen

Andrew Doyle tells Lloyd Evans about his new musical celebrating the life-changing work of maverick Archibald McIndoe

New faces: ‘McIndoe wanted the patients to be happy. He let everyone drink on the ward, and smoke on the ward’. Credit: copyright: Queen Victoria Hospital /East Grinstead Museum 
issue 27 November 2021
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‘You’re inside an incinerator. The cockpit is on fire. You are burning. You can see bits of your body melting off. And you are struggling to get out.’ This is Andrew Doyle, the creator of Titania McGrath, describing to me the experience of an RAF pilot trying to escape from a stricken plane during the second world war.

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