The following contains major spoilers for Silent Witness Series 27, Episodes 9 & 10, "King's Cross - Parts 1 & 2," now ...

each season is self-contained, so you can jump on at any point. But watching Silent Witness started us thinking. What makes actual medical examiners, forensic pathologists or forensic anthropologists ...

Silent Witness is sixteen. It’s an astonishing run for any programme but particularly impressive for a show, which is not a soap, in fact it is not really a series in the traditional sense.

On Monday, ahead of the airing of the two-parter, disability charity Scope published a blog which praised the series for shining "a light on a variety of issues that disabled people face".