Bedside Reading
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A medical humanities podcast where bibliophile healthcare professionals can discuss a novel, memoir, poetry collection and gain “accidental CPD”. https://bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/
Coming up next week it’s another brilliant Fredrick Backman novel !
Such a treat to welcome anthologist Ana Sampson to the podcast to discuss broken hearts and the power of poetry to begin the mending bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis...
You can do it with a broken heart - Bedside Reading
What do we reach for when our heart is broken, and reading an entire novel feels completely beyond us?In this episode, I welcome back poetry anthologist Ana Sampson to talk about her wonderful new col...
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I adored this novel and I’m so glad I found someone to discuss it with who’d got so much out of it too.
When the Cranes Fly South - Bedside Reading
This week Tara is joined by fellow GP Francesca to discuss Lisa Ridzén’s beautiful and heartbreaking novel When the Cranes Fly South.Bo is an elderly man determined to remain in his own home, surround...
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Coming up on Tuesday 29th September I’m delighted to welcome back GP Francesca Boffey to discuss Lisa Ridzen’s amazing novel “When the Cranes Fly South”
The Wrong Order of Things is ostensibly, a book about children's palliative care. But it is that and so much more. It really is one of the most brilliantly life affirming and beautiful books that I think everybody should be reading and I absolutely loved talking to Michelle.
The Wrong Order Of Things - Bedside Reading
I think Michelle Hills' book The Wrong Order of Things is a contender for my non-fiction read of the year in 2026. It is so readable. It is so engaging. It is funny. It is moving. It is kind. Michelle...
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@bedsidereading.bsky.social thank you for having me on your podcast. Available to listen now. We had a great conversation. It’s nice to hear how buoyant I sound, because my mood changes so easily. This was clearly a good day and you got the best of me. #booksky #memoir #grief #medicaltraining
Her Name is Alice - Bedside Reading
Caroline Litman's memoir, Her Name is Alice, was one of my top reads of 2025. And so it feels like a real honour today to welcome Caroline herself to Bedside Reading to talk about her absolutely brill...
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I really enjoyed this chat. You can tell I was having a good day. Hosted by a GP with the aim to educate health care professionals through the power of books that aren’t text books, it’s still accessible to those without a healthcare background. Have a listen and forward to the medic in your life.
Bedside Reading@bedsidereading.bsky.social · last mo.Caroline Litman's memoir, Her Name is Alice, was one of my top reads of 2025. And so it feels like a real honour today to welcome Caroline herself to Bedside Reading to talk about her absolutely brilliant book. bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis...
Caroline Litman's memoir, Her Name is Alice, was one of my top reads of 2025. And so it feels like a real honour today to welcome Caroline herself to Bedside Reading to talk about her absolutely brilliant book. bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis...
Her Name is Alice - Bedside Reading
Caroline Litman's memoir, Her Name is Alice, was one of my top reads of 2025. And so it feels like a real honour today to welcome Caroline herself to Bedside Reading to talk about her absolutely brill...
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Reading an advance copy of this wonderful anthology. It’s visceral in places, heavily resonant and touching comforting and funny too. Is it the perfect anthology? Possibly, especially if you are a middle aged woman with a broken heart…..
When you matcha your drink to the cover of the book…
Feeling so privileged to have a prepublication copy of this amazing book to read and thoroughly looking forward to recording a podcast with the author next week.
Sneak preview for Tuesday 1st September when I’m delighted to release a fabulous conversation with @elizafricker.bsky.social starting off with her most recent book “Could Try Harder” and exploring lots more about neurodivergent young people and how to support them and their families.
I'm unbelievably excited today to welcome Ian Seymour to the podcast to talk about the first two novels in the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin: bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis...
Tales of the City - Bedside Reading
I'm unbelievably excited today to welcome Ian Seymour to the podcast to talk about the first two novels in the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin: The Tales of the City and More Tales of the...
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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 her second memoir which addresses topics around body shaming, hunger for food, for love, for achievement.
Hungry - Bedside Reading
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
Training in Charity - Bedside Reading
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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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.
Normal Family - Bedside Reading
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.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Bedside Reading
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.
Beautiful Lives - Bedside Reading
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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