A really warm welcome back today to somebody who I always really enjoy talking to. I'm delighted to have Ben Tyler here today to talk about Hungry by Katriona O'Sullivan, which is her second memoir which addresses topics around body shaming, hunger for food, for love, for achievement.

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A really warm welcome back today to somebody who I always really enjoy talking to. I'm delighted to have Ben Tyler here today to talk about Hungry by Katriona O'Sullivan, which is Katriona O'Sullivan'...

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I’ve been thinking about “characters who you’ve actually grieved for when they died” Here are are my top four saddest fictional deaths. Jon Fielding (Tales of the City). Issy (A Song for Issy Bradley) Bastiaan (The Hearts Invisible Furies) Willem (A Little Life) Who did you cry for in fiction?

A warm welcome today to Dr. Alan Saxon, retired general surgeon from Chicago & author of Training in Charity, an absolutely brilliant medical novel in the genre of something like The Pit, ER or Casualty. It will appeal to anyone who loves stories and the sense of humanity and character development

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A warm welcome today to Dr. Alan Saxon, a retired general surgeon from Chicago and the USA and author of Training in Charity, which is an absolutely brilliant medical novel in the genre of someth...

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July in books

I absolutely love the poems of Henry Normal and seeing him live several times has not disappointed. I was delighted to discover he’d written a memoir with his wife about their life with their autistic son Johnny. Today I’m delighted to welcome Pete Aird to the podcast to talk about it.

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A warm welcome today to Pete Aird, who is here to talk about Henry Normal and Angela Pell's wonderful memoir, A Normal Family: Everyday Adventures with Our Autistic Son.This is a book which absolutely...

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Sneak preview for Tuesday 28th when I am taking to Pete Aird about Henry Normal and Angela Pell’s brilliant memoir “Normal Family”.

A warm welcome today to Eva Hibbs, who is here to talk about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. A hilarious and very different novel with themes of undiagnosed neurodiversity and intergenerational trauma.

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A really warm welcome today to Eva Hibbs, who is here to talk about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. This is an absolutely hilarious and very, very different novel i'm foll...

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Sneak preview for Tuesday 21st when Eva Hibbs and I are discussing “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”

It's a real honour today to welcome theatre director and brilliant writer @stephenunwin.bsky.social to talk about his phenomenal book, Beautiful Lives, How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong an incredibly accessible, brilliant page-turner of a book.

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It's a real honour today to welcome Stephen Unwin to Bedside Reading. Stephen is a theatre director by trade. He's also a brilliant writer. We're here today to talk about his phenomenal book, Beautifu...

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Delighted to be able to share this sneak preview of a conversation I had with @stephenunwin.bsky.social about his wonderful book “Beautiful Lives”. Full episode out on Tuesday 14th July.

There might be a little bit of squealy fangirling from me today... I'm delighted to welcome Lee David to the podcast. bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis...

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There might be a little bit of squealy fangirling from me today... I'm delighted to welcome Lee David to the podcast. Lee is a GP by background. She's also a CBT therapist and I remember her from when...

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Hatchery - Beth Osmond - Bedside Reading

I've got a fabulous guest today, Neonatologist and poet Beth Osmond, talking about her gorgeous collection, Hatchery. This is an utterly, utterly gorgeous collection of beautiful poems, mainly inspire...

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So delighted to record a podcast about Hatchery with Tara George @bedsidereading.bsky.social - thankyou for having me ! bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis... @vpresslit.bsky.social #poetsonbluesky

Hatchery - Beth Osmond - Bedside Reading

I've got a fabulous guest today, Neonatologist and poet Beth Osmond, talking about her gorgeous collection, Hatchery. This is an utterly, utterly gorgeous collection of beautiful poems, mainly inspire...

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Theatre loving friends. I need help! Have time for a matinee today. What should I see? Need near borough & air conditioning. Shortlist: Care -Young Vic Redcliffe - Southwark playhouse Borough Ride the cyclone - Southwark playhouse elephant Pride - NT (if can get a return as was sold out)

Really enjoyed doing this podcast. A book I read because of my connection to pku but also because Pearl Buck won a Nobel prize for literature. Episode released just in time for international pku day this Sunday. Listen because I can't bear to! Thanks @bedsidereading.bsky.social 😊

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A very warm welcome today to @emmavardy2.bsky.social to talk about Pearl S Buck's memoir, The Child Who Never Grew. I'm releasing it this week because this week on 28th of June, it is International PKU Day.

A very warm welcome today to @emmavardy2.bsky.social to talk about Pearl S Buck's memoir, The Child Who Never Grew. I'm releasing it this week because this week on 28th of June, it is International PKU Day.

The Child Who Never Grew - International PKU Day Special - Bedside Reading

A very warm welcome today to Emma Vardy to talk about Pearl Buck's The Child Who Never Grew, a memoir. I'm releasing it this week because this week on 28th of June, it is International PKU Day. As you...

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Out now I’m talking to Natalie Adler about her brilliant debut novel Waiting on a Friend. @quercusbooks.bsky.social If you're looking for a novel, which is a cross between The Great Believers, Rent, and It's a Sin, this is the book for you.

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Natalie Adler's debut novel, Waiting on a Friend, is a joy. It is a story about a young woman, Renata, living in New York's East Village in the early 80s during the AIDS crisis.There are stories of pe...

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It's a real pleasure today to welcome Sarah Marwick to talk about Malcolm Gladwell's The Revenge of the Tipping Point. I've thoroughly enjoyed talking about the book with Sarah and thinking about those themes which are really relevant to us as clinicians working in the health service.

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It's a real pleasure today to welcome back Sarah Marwick, GP and Portfolio Career Doctor, to talk about Malcolm Gladwell's The Revenge of the Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell is such a brilliant and en...

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Was reading a novel where one character makes the other an omelette. I was hungry. The rest as they say, is history. God it was good

Out now, an episode where I get to discuss one of my favourite novels "Cutting for Stone" with the brilliant Dr Alice Deasey bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis...

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When I first really started thinking about medical humanities, torytelling and "accidental CPD", about 14 years ago, I set up the Chesterfield Medical Humanities Book Club, which is still running. The...

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Sneak peek for Tuesday 26/5 when I’m joined by Alice Deasey to talk about one of my favourite novels ever: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

This week is creativity and wellbeing week and to mark this on the podcast I’m delighted to welcome @drnicoladavis.bsky.social oncologist and director of Creative Clinic to explore “Art Cure” by Daisy Fancourt bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis...

Art Cure - Creative Health Week Special - Bedside Reading

Creative Health Week runs from 18th - 22nd May 2026. So this week I am bringing you an episode which is all about creativity in health, basing our conversation on the phenomenal book, Art Cure by Dais...

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Now that’s what I call creative thinking. Setting up podcast recording studio in the car when I couldn’t be in two places at once!! Ps this collection of poems is amazing. You should all definitely buy it.

Out now. One of those books which really has changed my working life

Radical Candour - Bedside Reading

Kim Scott's Radical Candour had been on my to-read pile for years. I have no idea what it was that was stopping me picking it up. So I was delighted to be given the nudge by the very wise Michael Kill...

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One of those “books that changed my life” episodes coming up on Tuesday 12th. #RadicalCandour

A warm welcome back today to Greater Manchester GP, Zalan Alam. Today we are talking about Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple, which is an incredibly readable and very accessible, though enormous book about the five partitions of British India

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A warm welcome back today to Greater Manchester GP, Zalan Alam. Today we are talking about Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple, which is an incredibly readable and very accessible, though enormous book a...

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April reading. What a month. I can’t pick a favourite as so many are so good.

Out now: I’m joined by psychiatrist Claudia Camden-Smith to talk about “Sociopath” by Patric Gagne (and about female psychopaths more generally). What a book and what a great guest!

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A really warm welcome to neurodevelopmental forensic psychiatrist Claudia Camden-Smith today, where we're talking about Patric Gagne's memoir, Sociopath.This is such an interesting book, which really ...

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Sneak peek for Tuesday when we are talking about “Sociopath” by Patric Gagne