999: What's Your Emergency?
TV Show · Reality · Crime

An inside look at the lives of emergency services personnel in the United Kingdom, following the specially trained police, fire and ambulance teams on the front line as they answer millions of emergency calls every year, and discovering how they cope with making life-or-death decisions under stress on a daily basis. The cameras follow the work of first responders around the clock, providing an insight into a world full of drug- and alcohol-induced injuries, domestic violence, car accidents and fires.

2012 · 46m
Starring Hugo Speer, Julian Barratt
Director Greg Lander Williams, Toby Trackman

Season 2

  • EPISODE 2
    Alcohol
    Demonstrating the shocking effects of alcohol. In the UK, 1.6 million people are dependent on alcohol, and alcohol misuse directly costs the NHS £3.5bn a year, with admissions to hospital due to drinking doubling in the last ten years.
    46 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Mental Health
    Following paramedics as they do their best to help patients with mental health problems. With one in four of us facing such issues at some point in our lives, it's become the job of the emergency services to pick up the pieces.
    46 min
  • EPISODE 4
    Death
    Focus here is on call outs to patients fighting for life and the medical, ethical and emotional challenges their care creates, not just for the paramedics, but also for the friends and family who may be left behind.
    46 min
  • EPISODE 6
    Birth
    Focusing on babies, from births to over-protective parents and from poorly children to those facing neglect and abuse. Across the UK, 2200 women go into labour every day. The ambulance service helps those who can't make it to hospital.
    46 min

Related

Cast & Crew

  • Hugo Speer
    Narrator
  • Julian Barratt
    Narrator
  • G‌L
    Greg Lander Williams
    Director
  • T‌T
    Toby Trackman
    Director
  • N‌L
    Nick Leader
    Director
  • L‌M
    Leonardo Machado
    Director
  • W‌P
    Wes Pollitt
    Director
  • J‌E
    Jules Endersby
    Director
  • J‌S
    Jamie Seal
    Director
  • S‌K
    Shauna Keogh.
    Producer

About

999: What's Your Emergency?

Reality

An inside look at the lives of emergency services personnel in the United Kingdom, following the specially trained police, fire and ambulance teams on the front line as they answer millions of emergency calls every year, and discovering how they cope with making life-or-death decisions under stress on a daily basis. The cameras follow the work of first responders around the clock, providing an insight into a world full of drug- and alcohol-induced injuries, domestic violence, car accidents and fires.

Information

Studio
C4
Released
2012

Languages

Original Audio
English (United Kingdom)
Audio

English (United Kingdom) (AD, AAC)

Subtitles

English (United Kingdom)

Accessibility

Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.
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Africa, Middle East, and India

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Botswana
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Cape Verde
  • Egypt
  • Eswatini
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • India
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger (English)
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Zimbabwe

Asia Pacific

  • Australia
  • Cambodia
  • Fiji
  • 香港 (廣東話–繁體)
  • Indonesia (English)
  • 日本
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • 澳門 (廣東話–繁體)
  • Malaysia (English)
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Mongolia
  • New Zealand
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
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  • 台灣
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  • Turkmenistan
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  • Luxembourg (English)
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Latin America and the Caribbean

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  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia (Español)
  • Brasil
  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chile (Español)
  • Colombia (Español)
  • Costa Rica (Español)
  • Dominica
  • República Dominicana
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  • El Salvador (Español)
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  • Guatemala (Español)
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