Adam Kay Audiobooks

From the wards to the stage, a doctor turned comic: Undoctored and A Particularly Nasty Case

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Who is Adam Kay?

Adam Kay, born in 1980, is a British television writer, author and comedian – and, crucially, a former doctor. That first career produced his best-known work: This Is Going to Hurt, his 2017 memoir about his time in medicine, which he later adapted for television himself.

His screen credits stretch well beyond his own story, taking in Crims, Mrs. Brown’s Boys and work with Mitchell and Webb. But it is the doctor-turned-writer persona that defines him. Plenty of comedians joke about hospitals; very few can do it with the authority of someone who actually did the job, and that authenticity is the engine of everything he writes.

Adam Kay in audiobooks

Kay’s writing was practically made for audio: confessional, quick and paced like a stand-up set. Our catalogue features Undoctored, whose title alone signals a return to the territory that made his name, alongside A Particularly Nasty Case. What unites his work is the voice – funny, unsparing and grounded in the years he spent as a doctor. For UK listeners this is comedy with real substance underneath, best consumed in long stretches with headphones on: expect to laugh out loud in public, then go quiet at the moments when he clearly is not joking.