Warning: Upsetting content from the outset.

Liz McConaghy deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan with the RAF as a chinook helicopter crewman.

She regularly witnessed death and trauma while picking up seriously injured soldiers from the battlefield as part of the Medical Emergency Response Team or MERT.

Liz’s first brush with death came when her helicopter struck some overhead wires.

Years later she would face it again in her own home. 

With thanks to Liz McConaghy

Produced by Joe Cowen and Josella Waldron

Sound design by Sean Harper

Original Music by Will Farmer

Executive Producer Alex Griffiths

If you have been affected by Liz’s story you can find information about support here:

https://www.bfbs.com/audience-support