Episode 7: Windrush Medicine

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On 1 July 1899, the foundation of the International Council of Nurses was proposed by Ethel Gordon Fenwick. To celebrate this and the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020 we have created an “Echoes from Essex” podcast featuring interviews with four of the nurses and midwives who arrived in Essex many years ago from the Caribbean – Tina Aparicia, Carol Sydney, Lenore Sykes and Nell Green.

The music includes a song by Avril Coleridge-Taylor recorded by one of the electric voice theatre singers Simone Ibbett-Brown; a medical soundscape by the children of Clovenstone Primary School in Edinburgh and extracts from “Storm in C” by Frances M Lynch inspired by Meteorologist and Soroptimist Marjory Roy. The series presenter is Frances M Lynch Artistic Director of electric voice theatre.

The recorded interviews were made as part of an Evewright Arts Foundation project Caribbean Takeaway Takeover: Identities and Stories. We are grateful to Ionie Richards for permission to use the recordings and photographs and to Essex Record Office for their help in sourcing them. We are also grateful to Lindsey Williamson from the International Council of Nurses for her support.