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Article: Drama that gets right to the heart of the matter; Graham Keal finds out what's new and what's familiar about Casualty spin-off Holby City.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- January 8, 1999
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No one could accuse Holby City surgeon Anton Meyer of not having a heart - you can see him manhandle one, pulsating in all its gory glory after he plumbs it into his latest transplant patient in episode one.
Meyer, played with a charismatic combination of autocratic arrogance and dry wit by George Irving in BBC1's new Casualty spin-off, starts off as a ferocious, unbending, unsmiling hate figure, but he's more complex than that. You soon realise there is muc h to admire too.
Meyer's manner and his work in the theatre, set to soothing classical music as he ...