genre the citadel 
Archibald Joseph Cronin , MBChB , MD , DPH , MRCP ( 19 July 1896  6 January 1981 ) was a Scottish novelist and physician . A ___MASK7___ producer is a person who oversees all aspects of video production on a ___MASK7___ program . Some producers take more of an executive role , in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the ___MASK7___ networks , but upon acceptance they focus on business matters , such as budgets and contracts . Other producers are more involved with the day - to - day workings , participating in activities such as screenwriting , set design , casting , and directing . BBC ___MASK7___ dramas have been produced and broadcast since even before the public service company had an officially established ___MASK7___ broadcasting network in the United Kingdom . As with any major broadcast network , drama forms an important part of its schedule , with many of the BBC ' s top - rated programmes being from this ___MASK81___ . The Citadel is a 1983 BBC ___MASK7___ adaptation written by Don Shaw from A . J . Cronin ' s novel The Citadel , which was originally published in 1937 . It was produced by Ken Riddington . Other ___MASK7___ versions include a British ( 1960 ) and two Italian ( 1964 & 2003 ) adaptations . The BBC dramatisation stars Ben Cross as Dr . Andrew Manson and Clare Higgins as Christine Manson . It was broadcast in the US from November 1983 until January 1984 by PBS ___MASK7___ as part of Masterpiece Theatre . The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) is a British public service broadcaster . It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London , is the world ' s oldest national broadcasting organisation , and is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees , with over 20 , 950 staff in total , of whom 16 , 672 are in public sector broadcasting ; including part - time , flexible as well as fixed contract staff , the total number is 35 , 402 . Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC , in Portland Place and Langham Place , London . The first ___MASK23___ broadcast was made on 15 March 1932 , and the building was officially opened two months later , on 15 May . The main building is in Art Deco style , with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame . It is a Grade II * listed building and includes the BBC ___MASK23___ Theatre , where music and speech programmes are recorded in front of a studio audience , and lobby that was used as a location for filming the 1998 BBC television series " In the Red ". A ___MASK57___ is a long ___MASK96___ , normally in prose , which describes fictional characters and events , usually in the form of a sequential story . Ken Riddington ( 8 May 1922  26 December 2014 ) was a British ___MASK7___ producer , who worked predominantly in BBC ___MASK31___ from the 1970s onwards . A physician , medical practitioner , medical doctor or simply doctor is a professional who practises ___MASK45___ , which is concerned with promoting , maintaining , or restoring ___MASK54___ through the ___MASK3___ , diagnosis , and treatment of disease , injury , and other physical and mental impairments . Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories , types of patients and methods of treatment  known as specialities  or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals , families , and communities  known as general practice . Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines ( such as anatomy and physiology ) underlying diseases and their treatment  the " science " of ___MASK45___  and also a decent competence in its applied practice  the art or " craft " of ___MASK45___ .