9 episodes

In September 2020, sound designer and audio producer David Devereux decided to interview their parents about their time working in the National Health Service in the UK. Their dad is a doctor and their mum was a nurse, prior to David coming along.After recording the interviews, they took the tape and turned it into an 8-part, creative non-fiction podcast series, featuring stories from 30 years of working in medicine. There are conversations about education, the experience of running a ward, relationships with colleagues and patients, the dark sense of humour that comes with the job, as well as some of the wild stories that David grew up with.A Tin Can Audio Production
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Love & Wards Tin Can Audio

    • Health & Fitness

In September 2020, sound designer and audio producer David Devereux decided to interview their parents about their time working in the National Health Service in the UK. Their dad is a doctor and their mum was a nurse, prior to David coming along.After recording the interviews, they took the tape and turned it into an 8-part, creative non-fiction podcast series, featuring stories from 30 years of working in medicine. There are conversations about education, the experience of running a ward, relationships with colleagues and patients, the dark sense of humour that comes with the job, as well as some of the wild stories that David grew up with.A Tin Can Audio Production
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    8 - Mum & Dad - Love & Wards

    8 - Mum & Dad - Love & Wards

    CW: description of a patient having a cardiac arrest
    '...it's something that I've never really asked you or Mum, and that's how both of you met...'
    Transcript available here
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    • 9 min
    7 - Patients & Babies - Love & Wards

    7 - Patients & Babies - Love & Wards

    CW: Brief mention of food, diet studies, pregnancy, descriptions of psychiatric wards, electro-shock therapy, mental illness, poverty.
    'I used to take you into work and you used to get shoved on the floor in the pulmonary function lab on Saturday mornings as patients came in to be reviewed.'
    Transcript available here.
    You can find out more information about the Tupumue project here.
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    • 18 min
    6 - Then & Now (Part 2) - Love & Wards

    6 - Then & Now (Part 2) - Love & Wards

    CW: Discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic as of September 2020, description of having Covid-19
    'You're in the mindset that you could do anything, and you're in the mindset that you're willing to do all sorts of things.'
    Transcript available here.
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    • 18 min
    5 - Then & Now (Part 1) - Love & Wards

    5 - Then & Now (Part 1) - Love & Wards

    CW: Description of a panic attack
    'We thought we were going to go out there and we knew best, and we were going to change everything when we got out on the wards. But as soon as you were on the wards, you just thought, Yeah, that's just crazy.'
    Transcript available here.
    Purchase a season pass here: https://tincanaudio.bandcamp.com/album/love-wards-conversations-with-my-parents
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    • 16 min
    4 - Gore & Nastiness - Love & Wards

    4 - Gore & Nastiness - Love & Wards

    CW: Graphic descriptions of car accidents, injuries, surgery
    'I had a reputation of loving a bit of gore.'
    Transcript available here.
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    • 9 min
    3 - Humour & Death - Love & Wards

    3 - Humour & Death - Love & Wards

    CW: discussions of medical procedures, hospitals, illness, death. Many discussions of death and illness.
    '...funny things happen, you know, if you saw it in a film you'd laugh your head off at some of the things.'
    Transcript available here.
    Purchase a season pass here: https://tincanaudio.bandcamp.com/album/love-wards-conversations-with-my-parents
    Follow Tin Can Audio on Twitter: @tincanaudio
    Thank you for listening!
     

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    • 9 min

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