BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 8, 2021 03:31:00
Now it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. much has been said and written about covid—19 by politicians, scientists and healthcare professionals across the world. but what about the voices of those hit hard by the disease, the patients for whom it was very nearly a death sentence? my guest today is one of them — the hugely successful writer and educator, michael rosen, whose covid memoir is dark, sad, uplifting and funny, all at once. how did he find the poetic in a pandemic?