Five episodes where two different people at different stages of their careers, meet for the first time to share and contrast their experiences of working in the health service. One is about to retire, while the other still has years of employment ahead of them. Revealing and surprising insights emerge as the participants compare the pressures of the past with those we hear so much about today. In this episode we hear from two pharmacists. Shaheen, has been a community pharmacist for the last 37 years. She runs her own pharmacy now, but she started working in a chemist's store at the age of fifteen when her father fell sick and she had to help her mum support the family. Back then she remembers chemists making and selling their own homemade remedies, rather than selling branded goods. She’s in conversation with Linsey who qualified as a pharmacist in 2021. She’s never known the job not to be busy, particularly since the pandemic. One day she'd love to own her own pharmacy, but currently has no idea how she'll be able to afford it.

Produced by Gill Kearsly and Nick Holland
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound: Graham Puddifoot
Production Coordinators Sabine Schereck and Maria Ogundele Show less