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Dr Gwen Adshead

Duration:: 45 minutes

First broadcast:: Sunday 11 July 2010

Kirsty Young's castaway is the forensic psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead.

A consultant at Broadmoor Hospital, it is her job to try to understand the behaviour of some of the most vilified people in our society. The Victorian institution in Berkshire is home to more than two hundred men; all people who have been convicted or accused of the most dangerous violent behaviour.

Her life outside work seems impossibly normal - bringing up her children, singing in a choir and gardening fill her spare time. Of her work, she says: "Other people's minds are so fascinating I can't think of anything more interesting and I can't understand why everyone isn't a psychiatrist."

Producer: Leanne Buckle

Record: James Taylor - Shower the People
Book: Biggest book of poetry available.
Luxury: Pen and paper.

The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter
Let It Bleed, ABKCO
Johann Sebastian Bach Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G major - Prelude
Soloist: Pablo Casals
Pablo Casals plays Bach, Pearl
Ian Dury and The Blockheads Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Greatest Hits of the Seventies – Get It On, Hit Label
The Weather Girls It's Raining Men
25 Years of Rock ’N’ Roll Vol.2 (1983), Connoisseur Collection
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart That Ungrateful Man Betrayed Me (from Don Giovanni)
Soloist: Kiri Te Kanawa Orchestra: Orchestra of L’Opera in Paris Conductor: Lorin Maazel
A Portrait of Kiri Te Kanawa, CBS
James Taylor Shower the People
Classic Songs, CBS/WEA
Johannes Eccard When Mary to the Temple Went
Choir: The Choirs of St Peter’s in Caversham & St John’s in Mortimer - PRIVATE TAPE
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Lacrimosa
Orchestra: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Chorus Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Mozart’s Requiem, Philips

BBC Radio 4Sun 11 Jul 2010 11:15 BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4Fri 16 Jul 2010 09:00 BBC Radio 4

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