RHLSTP Book Club 159 - Adam Kay

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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RHLSTP Book Club #159 - A Particularly Nasty Case - Richard talks to ex-doctor and best-selling author Adam Kay about his first novel, a brilliant comedy thriller, A Particularly Nasty Case. They chat about getting the fabulous Andy Serkis to do the audiobook (and why Adam was reluctant to do it himself), how Adam has lots of fans in the 8-12 year age group (including Rich’s daughter) but how this is definitely not a book for them, the delicate balance of writing a whodunnit where it’s possible, but not easy, to guess the who whodunnit, how Adam weaves in some serious issues into this very funny book, how welcome is having a gay protagonist where their sexuality is more or less by the by, the classism and other issues that still pervade the NHS, dealing with mental health and the importance of actually being funny in a funny book. The book is a lot of fun and also involves corpses bottoms and dominatrices and proper jokes.

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0:59.9	Rahalustapa.
1:05.2	Hello, welcome to another Rahalasdaba book club.
1:08.3	This week I have been listening to a particularly nasty case
1:12.6	by Adam Kay, who joins me from his palatial living room out in the countryside. How you do?
1:19.6	You say you're listening to it, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang, I'm fine. You say you're listening to it,
1:23.4	then you're waggling a physical book, which implies that you haven't.
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