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Nov 2023
50m 25s

Adam Kay

Bbc Radio 5 Live
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“It’s not thick skin, it’s scar tissue.”

Doctor-turned-comedian and writer Adam Kay on why he left his medical career and if he’ll ever return to it, attitudes towards the NHS and its staff, his new-found passion of writing for children, and what he thinks of the TV adaptation of his best-selling book This Is Going To Hurt.

Plus he waxes lyrical over the band he’s seen “more than his family”, Pulp!

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