THE LAST ASYLUM - Radio 4 Book of The Week

You can catch Maggie Steed reading bestseller The Last Asylum all this week on BBC Radio 4's Book of The Week.

The Last Asylum begins with Barbara Taylor's visit to the innocuously names Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London - a place of luxury flats and careful landscaping. But this is the former site of one of England's most infamous lynatic asylums which at it's peak housed nearly 3,000 patients - including, in the late 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself. 

Darien Leader has described it as 'Superb, riveting, insightful and relentlessly honest'.

Broadcast every morning at 09:45am on Radio 4 and available on iPlayer this is not one to be missed. 

 

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