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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 ...

One of the most distinctive features of Silent Witness is its focus on the post ... so a huge amount of effort is spent ensuring this aspect of the series is as intriguing and authentic as possible.

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".

Hard to believe now, isn't it?' It is indeed, but hardened viewers of Silent Witness are used to this sort of thing. Soon there's another body. In TV dramas, one murder is seldom enough.