Poems on trades and professions selected and introduced by Anthony Thwatte
6: Doctors and Nurses The glistening theatre swarms with eyes, and hands, and eyes.
On green-clothed tables ranks of instruments transmit a sterile aleam.
The masks are on, and no unnecessary smile betrays
A certain tension, true concomitant of calm.
(JAMES KIRKUP)
Read by Frances Horovitz and Gary Watson
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester