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    RADIO VALERIE GROVE

    Aug 25, 2021 2 minutes

    One of Radio 4’s virtues is in confronting subjects we’d rather not think about.

    In a recent edition of Helen Lewis’s The Spark – in which people find solutions to social problems – the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh questioned why, with him having advanced prostate cancer and facing intolerable pain, ‘The law insists I must suffer.’

    A more common unthinkable is Alzheimer’s. The disintegration of, but could never get it commissioned – one of the many professional slights that so wounded him in later years.

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