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Book of the Week: The Gene

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Jill Waters

Raj Ghatak

Book of the Week: The Gene: Episode 1

The Gene

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The quest to understand heredity and family begins with a monk, Mendel, and his peas.

Siddhartha Mukherjee's quest to understand heredity and family begins with a monk, Mendel, and his peas.

A history of mental illness - bipolar disorder and schizophrenia - in the author's family underpins this intimate history of the gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The quest to understand heredity and family begins with a monk, Mendel, and his peas. 

Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher, a stem cell biologist and cancer geneticist. He is also author of The Emperor of All Maladies, a biography of cancer which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, and the Guardian first book award.

He is assistant professor of Medicine at Columbia University.

Written by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Read by Raj Ghatak
Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters 
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.

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