It's the little things

Life Changing

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Agnes Nisbett is a nurse and midwife whose own hospital experience in the 1970s revealed just how flawed and uncaring the system could be. Agnes came to the UK from St Kitts and Nevis as part of the Windrush generation. Her goal was to achieve as much as she could in her profession and despite the many barriers, “sheer hard work” got her to the top. Now in her eighties and looking back on her time in the NHS, she shares how her own private and personal loss inspired her to challenge and change things for others.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.7	Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC.
0:08.4	I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book.
0:11.4	But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts.
0:15.4	I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into
0:19.2	a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to
0:25.2	give it a go myself, which, to cut a long story short, led to a BBC training scheme and a whole
0:30.0	new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories
0:34.2	that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC
0:38.1	Sounds.
0:40.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:44.7	Hello, and welcome to the series that hears from people who've experienced a moment in
0:48.7	their lives that transforms everything. Today, a woman whose courage and compassion in the face
0:54.1	of unimaginable sadness
0:55.7	helped change not just her life but that of many, many others. Her name is Agnes and she joins us
1:02.3	from Leicester. Hello, Agnes. Lovely to see you. Hi. Lovely to be here. Lester's home now. Where
1:09.5	did you spend your early years?
1:11.0	Where were you born?
1:12.7	I was born in Nevis, an island in the Caribbean.
1:16.9	Sinkets and Nevis is one federation.
1:20.8	And I did my nurses training in St. Kitts and was qualified as a nurse.
1:32.3	And you came to the UK in 1959. 59. You were just 21,
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