This week I’m excited to introduce you all to Richard Webb-Stevens or RWS as he’s known in the ambulance service. RWS is a deaf paramedic who has worked on both motorbikes and helicopters. He is a man of many talents – he cooks up delicious looking RWS-ipies, photographs the city from the skies as a HEMS paramedic and plays a mean bit of blues on the bass. Follow RWS on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/74RWS">@74RWS</a> and Instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/74RWSrws999">@rws999</a> Connect with Kim on her website<a href="http://www.kimbusseychamberlain.co.uk/"> www.kimbusseychamberlain.co.uk</a> and follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/KimBusseyChamb1">@KimBusseyChamb1</a> To keep up to date with future episodes follow us on Twitter<a href="https://twitter.com/TheParamedicPod"> @TheParamedicPod</a> and on Instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/TheParamedicPod">@TheParamedicPodcast</a>

Andy Tweedy: Firefighter

This podcast is all about what it’s really like to be a paramedic - or any frontline uniformed professional - each week you get to hear from the real humans under the uniform, the memorable moments they’ve experienced in their jobs and the people that have stayed with them for life. As paramedics we are often asked ‘What's the worst thing you have ever seen?’ and I am here to encourage a different kind of conversation with our frontline workers, to uncover what it takes to work in these roles and the privilege we experience in meeting and connecting with patients. Let's hear what life is really like, Beneath The Blue Lights…