Dr Alex George and Ella Al-Shamahi
A Good Read
BBC
4.2 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle is a guide to spiritual enlightenment and preaches the importance of being in the moment. Alex George has found it an invaluable guide when he has suffered periods of anxiety and poor mental health. Ella Al-Shamahi chooses a first hand account of being imprisoned in Yemen by Abdulkader Al-Guneid, a medical doctor taken from his home and locked up for over a year for posting his political views about the conflict in Yemen on social media. She says Prison Time in Sana'a is a testament to inner strength as well as a guide to understanding a very complex if forgotten war. Harriett's choice is the Mermaid of Black Conch - a novel about the capture of a sea woman by white fishermen on a fictional Caribbean island. Little Mermaid it is not. Monique Roffey's mermaid has bad teeth and is full of sea lice.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Things just swirling around my head. |
| 0:03.6 | Am I really the product of this? |
| 0:06.1 | Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests. |
| 0:11.0 | Little did I know what more was to come. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift, |
| 0:17.5 | we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database. |
| 0:22.8 | They did know that I was different. |
| 0:25.7 | You had kids together. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.4 | Then you met. |
| 0:28.3 | Then we met. |
| 0:29.2 | The Gift. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.4 | Hello, have we found the secret of inner peace? |
| 0:37.3 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:38.5 | With me to introduce their goodread, our first Dr Alex George, TV doctor, writer and young mental health ambassador to the government. |
| 0:46.4 | Alex is a regular on ITV's Lorraine. |
| 0:49.0 | He hosts the Inner Harmony show on Classic FM and is the author of Live Well Every Day, Your Plan for a Happy Body and Mind. |
| 0:58.3 | With him is the explorer, paleoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist, and not least stand-up comic, Ella al-Shemahi, author of The Handshake, A Gripping History. |
| 1:09.3 | Ella's TV programs include Neanderthals, |
| 1:12.0 | meet your ancestors, |
| 1:13.5 | and Jungle Mystery Lost Kingdoms of the Amazon. |
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