BBC Radio Podcasts from Best Medicine
7. Bonus Episode - Extra Dose
A Petri dish of funny and fascinating extra unheard bits from Series 2.
6. Pain Management, Organoids, Prosthetic Leg Covers
Pain management takes on tiny beating hearts in a dish and prosthetic legs.
5. Books, Poetry, Scandal, Writing
Kiri opens the book on literary medicines in this special from the Hay Festival.
4. CAR T-cells, Ritual, Water, Crying
Revolutionary reprogrammed cells that kill cancer, or could crying be the best medicine?
3. Sleep, FMTs, Dr Charles Drew, Stem Cell Transplantation
Laura Smyth on sleep, strangers become blood brothers, and what exactly is a ‘crapsule’?
2. Sweating In Nature, Animals, Transplantation, Horticulture
Zoe Lyons sweats outside, whales inspire a heart treatment and transplants transform lives
1. MV140, Origami Surgical Capsules, Denial, Defibrillators
Ingestible origami robots battle against a revolutionary pineapple-flavoured UTI vaccine.
Best Medicine: Series 2 - time for your second dose!
Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back with your second dose of Best Medicine!
10. Epidurals, Embroidery, Play, Death
From birth to death via embroidery and play, what will Kiri choose as the Best Medicine?
9. Autopsies, Light, Escapism, Henrietta Lacks
Can autopsies really be the best medicine?
8. Doing Less, Gardening, The Smartphone, Expertise
Can you learn to see through your tongue?
7. Failure, Detection, Herpes, Climate Change
Cancer-curing Herpes, Victorian clockwork saws and a neurologist playing detective.
6. CT Scans, Inhalation, Faith, Attention
Guest Ria Lina champions CT scans.
5. Laughter, Other People, Inclusion, Tissue Engineering
Drumming rats, Henry VIII's disabilities, laughter and a world-first heart operation.
4. Surgical Microrobots, Backlash, The Immune System, Keeping an Open Mind
Micro-robots and the immune system are among the medicines championed in this episode.
3. Breast Medicine
A breast special featuring a life-saving AI algorithm, luck and injectable radiation.
2. Cytosponge, Fresh Air, Showmanship, Alkaline Breathing
Comedy meets medical science with a pill on a string and medieval surgery.
1. Sobriety, Touch, Camellia Sinensis, Trust
Comedy meets medical science with virtual reality injections, sobriety and trust.
Pilot: Bubbles, Dancing, Masks, GoodSAM
Pilot: Comedy meets science with cancer-curing microbubbles, dancing & a life saving app.
Introducing Best Medicine
Kiri Pritchard-McLean dissects funny and fascinating medicine with experts and comedians.