1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: Adam Kaye's touring a former doctor turned all three is 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: bringing is This is going to Hurt live show to 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: the Regal Theater May the third and fourth. Tickets are 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: available through a ticket tech And he's with us now, 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: good morning. 6 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning morning. 7 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: How are you when you've been a doctor, do you 8 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:22,240 Speaker 1: then forever be able to you know, be called doctor? 9 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 3: Okay, because I certainly would be dining out on it. 10 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: Ever, I mean I think I think the only time 11 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 2: I use it is if I'm like trying to get 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 2: an upgrade on a plane. 13 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 3: Table at a restaurant in between saving lives, I'd like 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 3: to come in for a meal. 15 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, that would that would work. Now the show is 16 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: coming to town. First of all, we must ask, at 17 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: last count, how many babies have been named at him 18 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:49,919 Speaker 1: after you? 19 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: Ha ha, less than the population average. If you put 20 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 2: people off naming children, Adams, I. 21 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: Don't think your first well without offering up the name 22 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,919 Speaker 1: as a you know, as a good choice. 23 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a great choice, boy or girl. 24 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: I think it definitely works. 25 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 3: Anyway, we are now tell us about the live show. 26 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 3: How does how does that work? 27 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: And I guess it's a mix of stories from in 28 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 1: the hospital and at the hospital. 29 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 2: Exactly. That's so basically it's like the audio books, but 30 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 2: it's shorter and it's more expensive. So I get up 31 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 2: on stage and I tell some horrifying, slash finny, slash 32 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 2: disgusting stories for my time working and people come along. Yeah, 33 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 2: I had a lovely time. Last summer was last time 34 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: I was over touring, and that all sold out, so 35 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 2: I've I've come back again. It's what I have to 36 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 2: describe a monumental personal inconvenience because it is so far 37 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 2: from loved. 38 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 4: We are a few way with a big city in 39 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 4: the world. Yeah, the apologies about that. You've put a 40 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 4: lot of your stuff together using your diaries. Were your 41 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 4: diary kids, you know, when you're a child, were using diaries? 42 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 4: Was it so later in life so you could recall stuff. 43 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 2: Later in life? I think I don't. I never had 44 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 2: any plans for these diaries to become books, to become 45 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 2: a show and anything like that. But I think what 46 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: happened when I was working in medicine is it became 47 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 2: my form of I don't know, therapy, maybe looking for 48 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 2: the light amongst the dark. You know, when I had 49 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 2: one of these rough days, I would, you know, jop 50 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: down the funny, silly things that happened in order to 51 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 2: you know, to get myself through it. And but as 52 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 2: a kid, I was quite creative, quite musical, but it 53 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 2: was always like predetermined for me I was going to 54 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 2: be a doctor, So it never occurred to me there 55 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 2: liked be a creative career. 56 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: Were you ever in any doubt that the stories that 57 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: you do relay in the books were going to be 58 00:02:58,680 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: hugely enter. 59 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 3: Changed because some of them are horrendous but entertaining. 60 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 2: I've they've always gone They've always gone down well at parties, 61 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: I thought, so it was just just an extension of 62 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: of that. I could either I could either make people 63 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 2: laugh so I was a welcome guest, or get find 64 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 2: an easy way to leave a party wasn't enjoying. Yeah, 65 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 2: so I always knew they'd get a bit of a reaction. 66 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 2: I had no idea they'd get the sort of reactions 67 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 2: they did when when the book came out. 68 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, we've just seen wonderful acted Ben wish it will 69 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 4: be so good in Black Doves recently. Yeah, did you 70 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 4: ever saying him cast cast as you and the TV show, 71 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 4: this is going. 72 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: To hurt I did. I did have to say yeah, 73 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: which is really weird because it's like one of these standards, 74 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 2: you know, like doing a party questions, you know, who 75 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,119 Speaker 2: would play you with a singer, and suddenly we're having 76 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 2: these actual meetings sitting down and saying, oh, but I 77 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 2: knew it had to be Ben. So he's great. Yeah. 78 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 2: So often with actors, as I'm sure you know, you 79 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 2: have to choose between good or nice, and with Ben 80 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 2: Wisher to get good and nice, and he's so good. Yeah, 81 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 2: because he can do the drama as well as the comedy. 82 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 2: And I think any depiction of the hospital setting can't 83 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 2: just be straight drama, can't just be straight coined. There's 84 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 2: always a bit of those and that's that's what he 85 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: does so amazingly. 86 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: The book This Is Going to Hurt, of course, is 87 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: full of these amazing stories, but it is at the 88 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: heart of it is the situation that you were in 89 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: as a junior doctor in the NHS. 90 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 3: Your treatment was pretty bad. 91 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: You know, you worked horrendous hours, You couldn't take a 92 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: day off because there'd be no one to cave, you 93 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: couldn't go on holiday, and it was all for very 94 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: little thanks and money. 95 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 3: Have things improved. 96 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: Singly and well, I mean it's uh, you know, I 97 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 2: don't think I painted particularly like rosy picture of life 98 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 2: as a junior NHS doctor, but it seems that those 99 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 2: are actually the good old days. Some things are a 100 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: little bit better, but but some some are, some are 101 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 2: some are no better. And and the thing I found 102 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 2: extraordinary is that not only is it sort of unchanged 103 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 2: in time, is this sort of unchanged in location, you know, 104 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 2: the case in points. And I'm doing this, I'm doing this, 105 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 2: this tour of Australia at the moment. But as soon 106 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 2: as the book came out, I was getting messages from 107 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 2: doctors working in not just English speaking countries, but in 108 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 2: like in Venezuela or Belarus or Chad or whatever. This 109 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 2: could have been set in my ward. So all these 110 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 2: all these problems seem to be like entirely universal. 111 00:05:57,839 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: I never says, is to amaze me that these people 112 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: don't look at the big picture of if you keep 113 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: doing this, you'll end up with no one, you know, 114 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: to look after people worked. 115 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 3: It's crazy. 116 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 2: Well, well yeah, but the thing that's happening at the 117 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 2: moment is all the doctors from from the UK coming 118 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 2: over to Australia and you're getting over. 119 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 3: Here and you're coming with them, So this. 120 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: Is going to come, This is going to hurt. Life 121 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 1: is on the Regal Theater. You'll love the Regal Theater, 122 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: May three and four. Tickets are available through ticket Tech. 123 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: I loved the book, Adam, Thank you so much. 124 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 3: Look forward to seeing you in May. 125 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 4: Over the next three weeks, will do our best to 126 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 4: move Perth a bit closer, to get a better fly. 127 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 4: Make that work the best. 128 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 3: Bye.