BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

Things just swirling around my head.

Am I really the product of this?

Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.

Little did I know what more was to come.

I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift,

we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.

They did know that I was different.

You had kids together.

Yeah.

Then you met.

Then we met.

The Gift.

Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello. Today's book recommendations

involve doctors, their patients and how to measure a cow. And with me to introduce their choice

of good read are first the award-winning playwright and actor Lolita Chakrabati, whose writing credits

include adapting Life of Pie and Hamnet for the stage.

Lolita's also written original plays including him, that's H-Y-M-N,

while her acting credits include most recently playing Mrs. Darling in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Wendy and Peter Pan.

With her is Guy Leszina, Professor of Neurology and Sleep Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals.

Guy is the author of three books, The Nocturnal Brain, The Man Who Tasted Words,

and Seven Deadly Sins, the biology of being human.

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