After days of intense heat, something broke in the middle of the night. We got some thunder and lightning but nothing much to speak of. But when I woke up this morning, the air was cool and I went and sat outside until I got goosebumps. It's so weird how micro seasonal we are. How we're affected on a moment by moment basis by just one or two days of weather. And today, everything seems okay again. Although clearly, we have as a world an awful lot of work to do to try and push back against these incredibly hot days.
While we take a rest over the summer, we’re sharing some remastered episodes from Season One, chosen by listeners.
This week, I talk to Leah Hazard, NHS midwife extraordinaire and author of Hard Pushed, part memoir of Leah’s life on the labour ward, and part exploration of the current state of the profession.
Leah is as funny, wise and warm in person as she is in print, and she talks about the life-changing decision to leave her TV career and train to be a midwife, and the moment when the stress became too much during one very busy night on the ward.
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