Nicola Barden
speaker
350 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Nicola Barden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Ballin Killin was quickly in their blood.
It was the place they'd play out their childhood dreams.
Kathleen Murphy was born in 1970, a tiny little nurse-in-waiting.
There could never be anything else in the future of a girl who was born to look after people.
the daughter of a farmer dad, William, and local nursing legend, Patsy.
She followed her dream as a child of 17.
Not yet finished school, Kathleen answered an ad in the Carlo Nationalist newspaper.
Up she went to an open day in Dublin, and before the afternoon was out, had signed on as a nurse in London.
Kathleen did all her growing up in London.
The lure of home was too strong.
Leaving her family before Christmas had even begun to go back to work in England overwhelmed her so much, she decided to quit.
And not the Irish Sea either.
It was much further away from Ballin Killen than that.
In 1995, her next stops were the surgical wards and then the fertility clinics of Saudi Arabia.
Six months became seven years.
Sanjeev Chadha was born in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
A middle child, home was briefly in Cookstown in County Tyrone until the family emigrated to London where he picked up an English accent.
There, he developed an interest in finance and after finishing up in the University of Essex, he took off in search of adventure.
He headed for the Middle East.
Home would be Saudi Arabia, where he worked in a bank.
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