Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, veterinary surgeon.

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Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Professor Noel Fitzpatrick is a veterinary surgeon who presents the television series The Supervet. He has pushed the boundaries of treatment available to animals and has developed ground breaking surgery including fitting the world’s first bionic leg on a dog. Noel was born in Ballyfin in Ireland where his father Sean was a farmer. As a very small boy Noel’s job was to count the sheep at night which he credits as the catalyst for his enduring love of animals. He completed his training in Ireland where he worked as a country vet looking after livestock. He moved to England in the 1990s and set up his referral practice in Surrey in 1997. Some of his famous clients include Meghan Markle’s dog Guy and Russell Brand’s cat Morrissey. He has also written two best-selling books based on his experiences of working with animals. DISC ONE: One by U2 DISC TWO: Love of My Life by Queen DISC THREE: Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin DISC FOUR: Do Anything You Want To by Thin Lizzy DISC FIVE: Walking in My Shoes by Depeche Mode DISC SIX: Ruby Tuesday by The Rolling Stones DISC SEVEN: Uprising by Muse DISC EIGHT: Nothing Else Matters (Live) by Metallica And San Francisco Symphony BOOK CHOICE: Oscar Wilde: Essays and Letters, Plays and Poems, Stories LUXURY ITEM: A guitar CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: One by U2 Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Paula McGinley

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks podcast.
0:08.4	Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to
0:12.8	take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.6	And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:21.0	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:37.6	My cast away this week is the Veterinary Surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick.
0:42.8	Many children invent superhero aliases very few grow up to see their daydreams come true.
0:49.0	This TV super vet is one who did.
0:52.0	As a child, he'd spend stolen hours on the family farm in rural Ireland, imagining
0:56.6	himself as vet man, a crusading hero who used biomex to rebuild sick and injured animals.
1:03.4	Forty years later, he has earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for his
1:07.6	groundbreaking work with animals, including fitting the world's first bionic leg on a dog.
1:13.9	Success hasn't come easy and his revolutionary practices have their critics.
1:18.1	His fans, however, can't get enough.
1:20.5	His work has been chronicled in 15 series and counting of Channel 4's Primetime hit,
1:26.2	The Super Vet, spawned two successful books, A Stadium Tour and Clients, including Meghan
1:32.1	Markle's dog guy and Russell Brands cat Morrissey.
1:35.9	For him, however, the status of the animal's owner is irrelevant.
1:39.8	He says, it's a vocation.
1:41.8	I've never done a day's work in my life.
1:44.4	I've just got up and done what I love to do.
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