Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Cardiologist and emeritus professor, pioneer in congenital heart disease and founder of the World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology.
On the island
Eight records
I remember first hearing that at the boys' school when we had an hour once or twice a week where we listened to music.
Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, K. 495: III. Rondo (Allegro vivace)
ever since then I have loved the the sound of the French horn, and I remember asking for my birthday for the record.
I completely fell in love with was me and my girl. And it ends happily. I like romance to end happily.
State Anthem of the Soviet Union
I discovered Moscow, which was the most exciting place.
this is part of the romantic era of when Walter and I were meeting. We married in nineteen fifty seven and we went dancing, and I loved cheek to cheek.
I met Thomas Hampson and I loved his voice. And then of the past I just adore Cole Porter.
Zueignung, Op. 10, No. 1Favourite
You're going to hear my friend Jesse Norman, who has influenced me a lot in the last twenty, thirty years.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:14How does it feel to be in a very large part responsible for the fact that there are thousands of people walking around this earth who wouldn't otherwise be here?
Well, I think I'm not responsible. It's really the cardiac surgeons who are responsible... But I think I've looked after a lot of patients who've grown up and survived, and tried to help them live as normal lives as possible.
Presenter asks
2:50Why did you see that there was care that needed to be done [for teenagers and adults] that wasn't being taken care of?
When I was briefly a cardiac surgeon... I realized that whatever they were doing, if they did survive, that there was an awful lot of abnormality left in the heart... And I didn't really think that the surgeons understood. They thought that that was it finished.
Presenter asks
20:10You qualified at the age of twenty-one, but you weren't made a consultant until you were thirty-eight. Why do you think that was?
I think for several reasons. Firstly, I didn't have a Y chromosome, you know, not male, so I never got on a short list. The second thing is I was mad about congenital heart disease, so I was half an adult cardiologist and really half a pediatric cardiologist, and really not accepted by either.
The keepsakes
Presenter asks
28:11What do you think is appalling about the NHS?
Well, I think this erratic care... I think it's been ruined, I regret to say. Initiated by Margaret Thatcher, who thought she could run it like grocery stores, and introduce managers. We've lost the matron we've lost the senior sister. Also, machines have taken over, so they're not trained the art of medicine has been lost.
“I don't think we have time to be running around feeling guilty iron men's shirts. Some one else can do that, as I made clear to my beloved husband when he produced a shirt. So I plonked the iron on it and burnt the sleeve. So that was that. No more were given to me.”
“I think these children who are over indulged in the end will suffer because actually life doesn't provide all that for you. So I think mine are a little bit hardy.”
“And life has gone on, and it was quite clear, with twenty years between us, that I was going to be a widow, so I always decided if I was, I was going to be a merry widow.”