GALLERY: Meet the team behind Channel 5’s ‘Body Donors’

Episode one of Channel 5's 'Body Donors', which follows the experiences of two cancer patients, as well as staff and students at the University of Liverpool's Human Anatomy Resource Centre (HARC), was watched by over one million viewers and trended at number one on twitter when the series premiered last week. HARC Bequeathal's Officer, Dee Tully, received more than 75 calls from people wanting to consider body donation in the first 48 hours of the programme being aired. The final episode of the series, where audiences will get an insight into how body donors are used for medical teaching, screens tonight at 9pm. Dee Tully, Bequeathal's Officer "The people that the HARC to donate their body inspire me with their stories and reasons for wanting to donate. The most remarkable people are those who have had vital lifesaving surgery and want to give back to the medical profession, as well as those who are terminally ill, who want our future doctors to learn from their donation. Dr Alistair Bond, lecturer and researcher "There is no doubt in my mind that the use of real cadavers makes an awful lot of difference to the education of students and their ability to treat people in the future. I don't believe that any model, computer programme or text book will ever come close to aiding in the study of anatomy as the ability to dissect a cadaver does.