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🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Deser Island Disks Podcast. |
0:08.6 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them |
0:13.9 | if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.4 | And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:21.2 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:44.8 | My cast away this week is the radiologist and humanitarian Dr. Waheed Arian. |
0:50.2 | He's a pioneer in telemedicine, where volunteer medics around the world use |
0:54.6 | everyday mobile phone technology to advise doctors working on the ground thousands of miles away. |
1:00.3 | It saved many lives in war zones and remote communities, |
1:04.3 | in countries including Syria, Uganda and Afghanistan, where Waheed was born. |
1:09.4 | He founded the charity Arian Teleheal in 2015 and won a UN Global Hero Award two years later. |
1:16.4 | All of which is remarkable, though given his backstory, it's nothing short of miraculous. |
1:22.0 | When he was just five, his family was forced to flee their home in Kabul during the Soviet |
1:27.4 | Afghan conflict, narrowly escaping the bombing raids that followed them to Pakistan. |
1:32.0 | Arriving as refugees, they were struck by malaria and malnutrition and he almost died of tuberculosis. |
1:38.5 | The doctor who saved his life was impressed by his curiosity and giving him a stethoscope |
1:44.2 | and a textbook also planted a dream. Six-year-old Waheed decided that he too would become a doctor. |
1:51.1 | The ambition took him from a refugee camp in Peshawar to Cambridge University and beyond. |
1:57.2 | He says, in the UK, the opportunities to achieve my potential and to give back to my family, |
2:02.9 | my adopted country and my homeland were within my grasp and I was determined to seize them with |
2:08.8 | both hands. Dr. Waheed Arian welcomed to Desert Island Discs. |
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