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Last broadcast on Sat, 13 Nov 2010, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
John McCarthy meets ophthalmologist Lucy Mathen who runs an organisation performing cataract operations in north east India and Andrew Ready who leads a team transplanting kidneys in Trinidad and Ghana. He asks them about operating in less than ideal conditions and the impact their work has on the local communities.
John also talks to architectural historian and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank about his fascination with bridges and those he has visited on his travels round the world.
Producer: Harry Parker.
Lucy Mathen
trained as a journalist and became a TV reporter on various programmes including John Craven’s Newsround. She later returned to university and qualified as an ophthalmologist. She now leads teams of eye surgeons in north east India which perform cataract operations to restore eyesight to the blind, for the charity she founded, Second Sight.
Second Sight
PO Box 25858
London
N5 1GY
Tel: 020 7359 1315
A Runaway Goat: Curing Blindness in forgotten India
Publisher: Pause For Space Publications
ISBN 0-9543662-7-1
Andrew Ready
is an internationally renowned kidney surgeon based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He works closely with and is a cofounder and medical director of a charity called Transplant Links which works with clinicians in developing nations improve their kidney transplant infrastructure. Andrew has taken his skills to Trinidad, Nigeria, Ghana and Egypt, and Kathmandu meeting health ministers and heads of state as well as young transplant surgeons, patients and their families.
Transplant Links
36 Upper Park Road
Camberley
Surrey
GU15 2EF
Tel: 01276 513385
Dan Cruickshank
is an architectural historian and television presenter. He has always been fascinated by bridges and over the years, wherever he travels he makes a point of going to visit the local bridge, particularly if it is one of historical, social or architectural and engineering interest. He’s written about his visits in a new book entitled Bridges: Heroic Designs that Changed the World. His favourite is the High Level Bridge in Newcastle.
Bridges: Heroic Designs that Changed the World
Publisher: Collins
ISBN-10: 0007318189
ISBN-13: 978-0007318186
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