Dr Ranj: I’m Dr Ranj, I’m a doctor working on the front line and I’ve just agreed to do a job swap for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Bitesize Careers.
Charlie Tee: I’m Charlie Tee a DJ and broadcaster on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 1 and I’m going to be swapping jobs with Dr Ranj.
Charlie Tee: While I’m waiting here for Dr Ranj to come and meet me, I’m going to have a little look on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Bitesize Careers website, to actually see what careers in healthcare involve.
Charlie Tee: Oh, hi, Dr Ranj!
Dr Ranj: Hi!
Charlie Tee: Pleased to meet you, how you doing?
Dr Ranj: How are you feeling about doing some of the medical stuff that I do for my day-to-day job?
Charlie Tee: I’m going to be honest, I’m a little bit nervous. I know nothing about being a doctor.
Dr Ranj: Any particular things you think you might be good at?
Charlie Tee: I talk for a living, so the talking bit hopefully… Dj’ing, doing radio, I use my hands quite a lot so I can multitask.
Dr Ranj: We’re going to see if we can transfer some of your DJ skills into this world. You’re going to be brilliant.
Charlie Tee: So, have you always known that you wanted to do this, that you wanted to be a doctor?
Dr Ranj: So, I was really, really young I think, when I made the decision to be a doctor.
Charlie Tee: How old were you?
Dr Ranj: Probably like eight?
Charlie Tee: That is quite young, isn’t it? That is quite young.
Dr Ranj: But I think it boils down to two things. Firstly, I have a fascination for science so I love trying to work out how things work and what makes them tick, to the point where when I was a kid I used to take my toys apart…
Charlie Tee: Right, OK.
Dr Ranj: … just to see what made them work.
Charlie Tee: That makes sense.
Dr Ranj: There’s also this part of me that really wanted to do something to help people.
Dr Ranj: So, we’re going to do something called inserting a cannula.
Charlie Tee: Got to find the vein.
Dr Ranj: Attach the syringe on the end.
Charlie Tee: Ohhh, sorry!
Dr. Ranj: Pull back on the syringe. There you go, you’ve just inserted your very first cannula.
Charlie Tee: Wow!
Dr Ranj: What I do want to show you is how we would give CPR to a baby this size. Do you want to have a go?
Charlie Tee: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dr Ranj: You’re going to have to go a bit faster than that.
Dr Ranj: I want to show you this skill that we do a lot of. That is a beauty!
Dr Ranj: OK, Charlie, you had a bit of a crash course… haha.
Charlie Tee: Yes.
Dr Ranj: Haha… so, how did you find working in a hospital?
Charlie Tee: It wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be.
Dr Ranj: Hahaha.
Charlie Tee: I thought it would be really difficult. You really impressed me with your ability to multitask…
Dr Ranj: Hahaha.
Charlie Tee: … and using your hands. I wonder if you’d be able to do the same when we get into my job role and we get to the Â鶹ԼÅÄ studios?
Dr Ranj: This looks like really good fun.
Charlie Tee: Welcome to Radio 1!
Dr Ranj: Oh my word! This looks amazing!
Charlie Tee: It’s good, isn’t it?
Dr Ranj: It’s incredible!
Charlie Tee: On a scale of one to 10, how excited/nervous are you feeling?
Dr Ranj: OK, my nerves are at about a ten and a half now.
Charlie Tee: OK, ten and half. We’ll get them down, we’ll get them down.
Charlie Tee: Let's have a little go!
Dr Ranj: Alright.
Dr Ranj: This is definitely not live, right?
Charlie Tee: No, it’s definitely not going out live. Ready? Yeah! Very good!
Dr Ranj: Look at that! Hahaha
Charlie Tee: And what you’re going to have to do is talk up until that little marker there.
Dr Ranj: Gosh! That’s a lot of pressure.
Charlie Tee: No, you’ve got it, you’ve got it! It’s harder than it looks, right?
Dr Ranj: It’s so much harder than it looks. Give me a cannula any day!
Dr Ranj: It’s Radio 1, you’re listening to Dr. Ranj. This is your Saturday night, and we’re kicking off with 'DJ Turn it Up' by Dimension.
Charlie Tee: Yay!
Dr Ranj: Yay!
Charlie Tee: Shall we have a little go at you interviewing me?
Dr Ranj: OK, let’s press the right button, here we go. It’s Dr. Ranj on Radio 1 and I have a very special guest with me today. It is none other than the fantastic Charlie Tee!
Charlie Tee: Hello! Is my mic up? Hello, there we are, thank you.
Dr Ranj: I’m turning you mic up now.
Charlie Tee: You might want to turn the music down a little bit.
Dr Ranj: I was pressing the wrong button.
Charlie Tee: Oh, lovely stuff.
Dr Ranj: How did you get into this, was this something you’d always wanted to do?
Charlie Tee: Actually, I didn’t get into radio until I was about 21/22, and I loved music, so passionate about music.
Dr Ranj: Yeah.
Charlie Tee: And one of my friends said to me: "you love music and you don’t stop talking, so, whatever job that is, you should do that!" I was like: "Radio? Radio would be great!" So I just started applying for jobs. I started at a community radio station…
Dr Ranj: OK.
Charlie Tee: … so, that is a great place for people to start if you want to do radio.
Charlie Tee: Well, you absolutely smashed that mate, out of the park! That is no mean feat to do that, to control a desk like that and talk.
Dr Ranj: That is so tricky.
Charlie Tee: I didn’t realise before today, how many transferable skills there would be across our two jobs.
Dr Ranj: Great thing about them is that they are both careers you can do at any time in your life.
Charlie Tee: Yeah!
Dr Ranj: You could be a healthcare professional if you wanted to be.
Charlie Tee: And you could be a radio presenter
Dr Ranj: Hahaha, I like the sound of that. I’ll go from DR Ranj to DJ Ranj!
Charlie Tee: That’s easy. Very good, very good!