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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

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