Lolita Chakrabarti and Dr Guy Leschziner
The playwright Lolita Chakrabarti, whose credits include adapting Life of Pi and Hamnet for the stage, and Professor of Neurology Guy Leschziner join Harriett Gilbert.
This week's books are:
How to Measure a Cow by Margaret Forster (chosen by Lolita Chakrabarti)
The House of God by Samuel Shem (chosen by Guy Leschziner)
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir (chosen by Harriett Gilbert)
The producer is Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio Bristol
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- Mon 9 Mar 202615:00BBC Radio 4
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