Dr Rachel Clarke is a dedicated palliative care doctor, passionate NHS advocate and bestselling author. Through her work, Rachel has become a powerful voice and important influence on how we approach the ultimate collective crisis. We’ve discussed our unwillingness to make loss a part of mainstream conversation with other guests on the pod. In this conversation Rachel helps us look hard at how and why we should fix that failure. Her brilliant new book, The Story of a Heart, looks at death – and love – from an entirely different and deeply moving perspective.

Links 

Rachel’s Twitter: https://x.com/doctor_oxford

Charity

Hospice Ukraine: https://www.hospiceukraine.com/what-we-do

Books

2017: Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story

2020: Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss

2021: Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic

2024: The Story of a Heart 

TV adaptation of Breathtaking

Breathtaking. ITV. 2024. https://www.itv.com/watch/breathtaking/10a4089

Stream/buy ‘Allies’ by Some Velvet Morning: https://ampl.ink/qp6bm

Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk

Your Daily Practice: Sleep by Myndstream: https://open.spotify.com/track/5OX9XgJufFz9g63o2Dv2i5?si=b2f9397c92084682

This podcast is brought to you by Crisis What Crisis? Productions and Coulson Partners

Host – Andy Coulson   

CWC team: Jane Sankey, Louise Difford, Mabel Pickering, Linus Difford

With special thanks to Ioana Barbu and the brilliant people at Global      

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