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A Good Read: Dr Rachel Clarke & Mohsin Zaidi

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The palliative care doctor and author, and the barrister and author share favourite books.

The NHS palliative care doctor and author, and the barrister and author share the books that have inspired them, with presenter Harriett Gilbert.

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.
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