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Episode: Ep216: A Good Read: Dr Rachel Clarke and Mohsin Zaidi
Published at: November 2, 2021
Author: BBC
Podcast: Books and Authors
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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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This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. Open Book talks to authors about their work. In A Good Read Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books.