Bedside Reading
Episodes
Psycho-logical
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI'm delighted to be joined by London GP and podcast fanatic James Thambirajah to discuss Dean Burnett's book Psychological. ...
Guts
03 May 2022
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Send us a textWhat a treat to be joined by a member of #medtwitter royalty. Ben Lovell and I had such a great discussion starting from Kristen Johns...
Room
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWelcome back and welcome to Season 2. It is o exciting to have you back listening to us. I absolutely loved recording this episode with ...
BONUS EPISODE: Talking to Strangers
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt's the end of series 1 and today's episode is a flipped one where Ed Pooley is interviewing me about Malcolm Gladwell's...
Stuart a Life Backwards
05 Apr 2022
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Send us a textJoin Tara and Kate Smith, A GP in Oxfordshire as we talk about the book that changed Kate's career: Stuart a Life Backwards by ...
Patience
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTara was excited this week to talk to another Tara who loves books almost as much as she does! Tara McCormack is an Emergency Department...
Vicky Thomas - poet, paediatrician and so much more
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a text In honour of world poetry day on 21st March, in a slight change to the format this week I'm delighted to welcome Dr Vicky Thomas ...
The Pull of the Stars
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAnother pandemic, 104 years before I met Jenny Slough to talk about it but the parallels with 1918 Dublin and 2020/21 London are uncanni...
Invisible Women
08 Mar 2022
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Send us a textIt's International Women's day, in a special episode to mark the occasion catch Tara talking to GP Registrar Eleanor Love abou...
Mend The Living
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhat a treat it was to talk to Ani Gavrilovic about what must be one of the most moving, and thought provoking novels I have ever read. ...
Mothership
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Tara this week as she talks to Mahima Chandrasekar about the powerful love story of the NHS and its neonatal care that is Francesca...
The Salt Path
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt's Valentines Day this week and in celebration we have a love story on the podcast today. This isn't a traditional schmaltzy...
Patient
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Tara George and Trisha Cantley as they talk about Ben Watt's memoir Patient. Yes it is that Ben Watt from "Everything But...
The Year of the Runaways
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textJoin Tara as she talks to Ripon Ahmed about Sunjeev Sahota's phenomenal novel "The Year of the Runaways". This is a wo...
A Man Called Ove
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis episode Tara is talking to Emma Cunliffe a locum civilian medical practitioner for the MOD and long standing Out of Hours GP about ...
Hamnet
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis week Tara is talking to Catriona Davis a remote and rural GP on Islay about Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet. We explore themes arou...
Instrumental
11 Jan 2022
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Send us a textTara speaks to Jo Stewart, a GP in Western Australia about James Rhodes’ book Instrumental. We talk about Adverse Childhood Experience...
The Thursday Murder Club
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis week Tara is talking to Charlotte Squires, digital media editor for the British Geriatric Society and the organiser of the wonderfu...
Night Feeds and Morning Songs
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTara talks to Nicola Davis about Night Feeds and Morning Songs a glorious collection of poems about motherhood (collected and curated ...
The Atlas of Love
21 Dec 2021
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Send us a textThis week Tara talks to Zuhriya Muazu a Doncaster GP about Laurie Frankel's "The Atlas of Love". They talking about being...
When Breath Becomes Air
14 Dec 2021
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Send us a textThis episode Tara talks to Rema Jyothirmayi about When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. They talk about doctors as patients, the im...
5 books for your Christmas list
07 Dec 2021
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Send us a textToday Tara and Ana Sampson explore some great ideas for books for everyone’s Christmas list. We talk about motherhood, the secret worl...
Cloudstreet
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode Tara talks to Henry Goldstein, adolescent physician and one of the founders of the incredible paediatric FOAMed organisa...
Stronger
23 Nov 2021
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Send us a textIn this episode Tara talks to Naren Senthil Nathan about Gareth Thomas' Memoir "Stronger". They discuss whether you n...
Imaginary Friends
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this launch episode Tara talks to Liz Herrieven about Matthew Dicks' novel "Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend". They di...
Trailer and welcome to bedside reading
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textwelcome to bedside reading, I can't wait to start sharing books and ideas with you, the podcast goes live on Tuesday 16th November,...