Contributor

Carla Valentine

Mortician, author and host of mortem, a BBC Sounds podcast

I'm a qualified Senior Anatomical Pathology Technologist which means I carried out autopsies alongside pathologists for years. (I prefer the term Mortuary Technician or 'Mortician'). I'm now the curator of a Pathology Museum which contains over 5000 anatomical specimens - most of them historical - so I still tease out the stories of the dead but in a slightly different way. My first book 'Past Mortems' was a Number 1 Bestseller in Amazon's Forensics list, and is out in the US as The Chick and the Dead.