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Read Smart: In Conversation - Hannah Barnes

9 November 2023

Tune into this special shortlist edition of the Read Smart podcast, where Razia Iqbal speaks to shortlisted author, Hannah Barnes about Time To Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children. Through unprecedented access to thousands of pages of documents, internal emails, unpublished reports and personal testimony from former GIDS clinicians, Hannah’s book investigates the controversial story behind the NHS’s flagship gender service for children.

Listen now to hear all about it. The podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. 

The winner will be announced on Thursday 16 November at an award ceremony at the Science Museum, generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The announcement will also be livestreamed across the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction social channels.