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BBC Radio 4
Best Medicine
Award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by funny and fascinating comedians, doctors, scientists, and historians to celebrate medicine's inspiring past, present and future.
In each programme, Kiri challenges her guests to make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine', and each of them champions anything from world-changing science to an obscure invention, an every-day treatment, an uplifting worldview, an unsung hero or a futuristic cure.Whether it's micro-robotic surgery, virtual reality syringes, Victorian clockwork surgical saws, more than a few ingenious...
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Ratings & Reviews
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4.9 stars from 40 ratings
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“Best Medicine is a cracking mix of science, sarcasm and super humans. Kiri excels in this role, balancing humour, warmth and pathos to a quality show that needs to keep on keeping on.”
gerlinky via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
01/23/24
Brilliant
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“Absolutely brilliant show. Kiri is very funny, as are all the panellists - I don’t know where they find them - or how they come up with the right combination of serious and light hearted, but it works every time. And I am learning so much as well as laughing. Bonus.”
AmelieP via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
12/05/23
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“A potentially interesting podcast, ruined by the over-aching BBCness; complete with weak and unnecessary sexist and racist quips.
That’s a shame.”
Yorkie73 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
12/05/23
Recent Episodes
Published 12/12/23
Joining Kiri this week are historian Dr Paul Craddock who unravels how vascular surgery owes a debt to 19th century Parisian embroiderer Marie-Anne Leroudier, historian Subhadra Das unearthing stories of death prevention, comedian Ria Lina pushing epidurals as the best medicine, and paediatrician...
Published 12/12/23
Joining Kiri this week is a druid, a drag queen and a mortician...it's one man, Kristoffer Hughes, who puts forward the autopsy as the best medicine. Professor Olivette Otele tells us the tale of Henrietta Lacks, an extraordinary woman whose so called 'immortal cells' have saved countless lives,...
Published 12/05/23
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