Showing posts with label podcasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label podcasts. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

District Nursing story on BBC Woman's Hour

One of my favorite podcasts to listen to is the BBC's Woman's Hour. It is a news, culture and politics radio show that gives me a quick and balanced taste of the female/feminist view of important issues.

This morning, whilst doing my dishes before heading off to the library, I listened to Tuesday's programme which included a lovely story about the history of District Nursing, now termed Community Nursing in the UK. Many first-hand accounts from district nurses and people whose lives have been affected by them were included, along with a discussion of the future of the service in the UK.

The next story discussed two British women, Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm who provided front-line nursing and ambulance care in Belgium during the First World War.

To listen to these stories, I usually download the podcast directly to my iPod Touch using iTunes but you can also listen again to the programme for 7 days after the initial airing via the this link on the Woman's Hour website.