UK News 21-11-2002 who: Body Worlds creator Prof Gunther von Hagens what: Sends `shivers` through audience as illegal autopsy goes ahead where: Truman brewery theatre, LONDON when: Last night snippet: "In the nerve fraying 40 minutes before the first incision, it had seemed that this was more about television than scientific endeavour," muses The Guardian. "People laughed and joked, and a few pale souls opened shopping bags on their knees and prepared for the worst." There may be repercussion though, adds The Times: "We weren`t going to rush into the theatre halfway through and stop it there and then", a police source said. "But that doesn`t mean he`s got away with it." [... more]

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