Dr Rachel Clarke & Mohsin Zaidi

A Good Read

BBC

Books, Arts

4.2 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The NHS palliative care doctor and author Rachel Clarke (Breathtaking, Dear Life) and the barrister and author Mohsin Zaidi (A Dutiful Boy) share the books that inspire them with presenter Harriett Gilbert.

Rachel chooses The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, a memoir about locked-in syndrome by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Mohsin picks a collection of essays, speeches, and poems by African-American author and poet Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You. And Harriett shares with them a crime novel, Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell.

Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol, Eliza Lomas. Follow our instagram book group @agoodreadbbc

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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.
0:27.5	Then you met.
0:28.3	Then we met.
0:29.2	The Gift.
0:30.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:34.2	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:38.7	Hello, I'm Harriet Gilbert.
0:40.4	Thank you for downloading a good read, the podcasts,
0:43.6	where two guests and I recommend books we love and describe why we love them.
0:47.9	We don't always see eye to eye, but I hope you'll find some great reading suggestions here.
0:53.0	Hello, today, Scandi Noir, a visionary black poet, a man fighting locked-in syndrome.
0:59.8	And here to tempt you with their choice of good read are first the palliative care
1:03.4	doctor and us twilight TV journalist Rachel Clark, whose books include Dear Life and
1:09.0	most recently breathtaking inside the NHS in a time of pandemic.
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