Tall tales

The academic answer to the cult US television drama Nip/Tuck hits our screens this week. Supervets , a fly-on-the wall documentary following research, teaching and surgery at the Royal Veterinary College in London, begins on BBC One on Thursday January 5. In the opening instalment senior lecturer Dan Brockman employs a new surgical technique to save a cat suffering from a rare heart defect and Bruno the giraffe undergoes an anaesthetic