Inheritance Tracks

Adam Kay


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Adam Kay was born in Brighton to Jewish parents, his father was a doctor and he too went into medicine gynaecology and obstetrics.

After a traumatic experience in the operating theatre, Adam left medicine and wrote his first memoir…This is Going to Hurt. It covered his time as a trainee doctor and became not only a bestseller, but was adapted by him, into the TV series of the same name, starring Ben Whishaw as Adam. He won a BAFTA for his writing.

His most recent memoir, Undoctored, was much, much more personal.

Radically honest in fact - from revealing his previous marriage to a woman before finding love with his now husband, to talking about abuse and having an eating disorder.

He’s also written fact and fiction books for children. explaining some of the more astonishing, and often revolting stories from the world of science and medicine.

Inherited: Franz Schubert's Impromptu Op.90 performed by Llŷr Williams

Passed on: I Never Do Anything Twice by Stephen Sondheim

Producer: Ben Mitchell

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