Adam Kay

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Former doctor, turned writer and comedian Adam Kay joins James O'Brien this week. Together they discuss his best selling book, 'This is Going to Hurt' which reflects on his experiences as a junior doctor and why he eventually left the profession, and how he took a different path into comedy and writing for some of the UK's top TV shows such as Mitchell and Mrs Brown's Boys. Full Disclosure is an in depth interview series chatting to the world's most fascinating people, hosted by James O'Brien. Rate and subscribe on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts and connect with James on Twitter: @mrjamesob

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0:00.0	This is a global original podcast.
0:06.0	Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Full Disclosure, which oddly actually given the
0:11.5	pretext for this entire series involves me this week meeting someone I've already met,
0:16.7	whereas in previous episodes it's been largely confined to people I've been keen to meet.
0:20.5	I am still keen to talk more to you because although this episode will go out in a couple of weeks' time,
0:25.6	this week you are responsible for keeping me off the top spot in the Sunday Times non-fiction paperback charts
0:33.0	by a total of 32 books.
0:35.9	So I need to establish immediately that you haven't been sending any books
0:38.8	that you've bought yourself to MPs again, have you?
0:42.3	So is this a lynching?
0:44.2	Yes, that's why you're here.
0:45.8	I've reeled you in.
0:46.8	Did no one tell you?
0:47.4	I've been dangling my maggot in the book lake,
0:50.8	and here you are.
0:52.2	No, the books I bought all the MPs
0:54.4	didn't count for the charts.
0:55.9	You'll be delighted to hear.
0:56.7	It counted at one sale of X hundred copies.
0:59.4	So you beat me fair and square then?
1:01.3	Again.
1:01.8	But I did buy a cop of your book for a friend who's visiting from the state.
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