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Short Works: Series 1: My Chemo Brain

29/09/2017

My Chemo Brain

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Series 1, My Chemo Brain

By Susmita Bhattacharya. The author's life after breast cancer and chemotherapy.

By Susmita Bhattacharya. Autobiographical, creative non-fiction about the challenges Susmita faced after breast cancer and, in particular, after chemotherapy.

By Susmita Bhattacharya. An auto-biographical piece of creative non-fiction about the challenges Susmita faced after breast cancer and, in particular, after chemotherapy.

Susmita Bhattacharya was born in Mumbai and sailed the world on oil tankers before settling down in the UK. She is an associate lecturer at Winchester University and leads the SO:Write Young Writers' workshops in Southampton. Her first story for radio, The Summer Of Learning, was broadcast in 2015. Her debut novel, The Normal State of Mind, was published the same year. Her short stories and poems have been widely published in the UK and internationally. She lives in Winchester with her family and cat named after a Bollywood star.

Writer: Susmita Bhattacharya
Reader: Susmita Bhattacharya
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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