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Radio 4,1 min

'The first one survived... the next eight or nine died'

Desert Island Discs

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Cardiologist Jane Somerville speaks to Desert Island Discs' Kirsty Young about her pioneering work on congenital heart disease with Sir Russell Brock in the 1950s, when techniques were still being developed and mortality rates were high.

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