Interview #5 | Dr Amanda Brown (Prison Doctor and Author)

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

I welcome Dr Amanda Brown to the show in this interview episode.

Dr Brown used to be a general practitioner with a comfortable, suburban practice before changing direction and working with prisoners.

She has worked as a doctor in a teenage detention centre as well as Wormwood Scrubs and currently works at Bronzefield, the largest women-only prison in Europe.

She has previously written two books about her time as a prison doctor, 2019's 'The Prison Doctor' and 2020's 'The Prison Doctor: Women Inside'.

Dr Brown's third book 'The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence', released on March 17, 2022, is available to purchase here:

The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence – HarperCollins Publishers UK

For all things British Murders, please visit my website:

https://www.britishmurders.com/

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David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'

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0:32.5	Music Hello everyone and welcome to British murders, the podcast that focuses exclusively on British murder cases with an occasional glimpse at horror movies.
0:53.8	I'm your host Stuart Blues, and this week I have another very special guest on the show.
0:59.2	My guest this week is a former GP turned prison doctor who has treated inmates in some of the UK's most infamous prisons.
1:07.8	After first working in young offenders institutions, she spent time at the notorious HMP
1:13.5	Wormwood Scrubs before finally arriving at HMP Bronzefield, the largest women-only prison in Europe.
1:21.2	Her third and final book, The Prison Doctor, The Final Sentence, is out today. Please welcome to the show,
1:30.5	Dr Amanda Brown. Welcome Amanda.
1:36.4	Thank you very much. Thanks for inviting you. You're more than welcome. Now, how I found you was actually on Amazon. I've got a little sneaky tip here for any aspiring podcasters. I went on there and I was
1:42.3	looking for true crime books because I like to speak to
1:44.8	authors every now and again. And I was looking at upcoming books and I saw yours flag. Well, it just
1:50.7	stood out really. And it was the prison doctor, which is sort of the prefix title, I suppose.
1:56.0	And I thought, God, I'd never realize that prisons have doctors, which sounds incredibly naive to me.
2:02.6	Is that something that people don't actually appreciate that these prisoners have GPs the same
2:07.4	as people on the street do?
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