BBC Radio Podcasts from Best Medicine

6 - Team Sports, Making Sense, Pet Dog Blood Donors, Board Games

Josh Pugh’s Team Sports kicks off vs Synaesthesia, Pet Dog Blood Donors and Board Games.

5 - Seaweed Underwear, Bubbles, Saunas

Bubbles face hot competition from seaweed underwear and saunas.

4 - Fighting, Gene Therapy for Huntington’s Disease, Plants

Stephen Bailey takes a swing with Fighting vs Gene Therapy for Huntington’s and Plants.

3 - Horses, Breaking Bad News, Reels

Horse Therapy, Breaking Bad News and Instagram Reels – which will win?

2 - Reformer Pilates, Persistence, Free Flaps

Jamie MacDonald’s Reformer Pilates faces stiff competition from Free Flaps and Persistence

1 - Rubbish, Home Births, Collaboration

Michelle Wolf brings home births. Rubbish can become medicine. Collaboration saves lives.

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.