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Mike Kroeger and Professor Antony Kessel

This week a medic and a rock star choose their good reads

This week Mike Kroeger bassist and founder member of Canadian band Nickelback guests with Professor Antony Kessel Deputy Medical Director of NHS England who's also an author of children's books.
Antony's choice is THE SAFEKEEP by Yael van der Wouden set in The Netherlands in the 1960s
Mike Kroeger chooses THE COMFORT CRISIS by American journalist Michael Easter who argues that in the Western world are bodies and minds are suffering because life is too physically comfortable.
Harriett's pick is BLACK WATER by Joyce Carol Oates a retelling of the Chappaquiddick incident in which a young woman in a car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy drowns when he careers off the road and abandons her trapped inside.

Producer for BBC Audio Bristol Maggie Ayre
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28 minutes

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Mon 2 Nov 202615:00

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  • Mon 2 Nov 202615:00

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