You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

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I'm Ashley Byrne and I'm taking you back to 1974 when a revolutionary new first aid technique

that would go on to save countless people from choking to death was first developed.

I've been speaking to Janet Heimlich, daughter of Dr Henry Heimlich, about the development of the Heimlich manoeuvre.

Can you just feel the soft part just simply if you're here and put one hand into that soft part here with her bending over slightly,

hold the first hand and pull inwards and upwards.

This procedure was so simple that he started to hear about cases where very young children would save their very young siblings or save a parent.

Below the lungs and below the diaphrag to force air out of the lungs

and up through the airway and we hope that it will take the obstruction with it.

Born in the years state of Delaware in 1920 and raised in New York,

Janet says her father was inspired to become a physician at a very early age.

He knew from the age of three that he wanted to be a doctor.

One of the people who really inspired him actually was the physician who came to people's homes. That was his first

exposure to someone working in the medical field. And it's while studying to become

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