4.7 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Best Medicine is your weekly dose of laughter, hope and incredible medicine. Award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by a funny and fascinating panel of comedians, doctors, scientists, and historians to celebrate medicine’s inspiring past, present and future.
Each week, Kiri challenges the panel to make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine', and each guest champions anything from world-changing science or an obscure invention, to an everyday treatment, an uplifting worldview, an unsung hero or a futuristic cure.
In this clip, historian Subhadra Das celebrates the incredible medical pioneer of blood transfusion, Dr Charles Drew.
If you enjoy this small dose, just search for Best Medicine on BBC Sounds where you can listen to the episode in full. It's Series 2, Episode 3 – where you’ll also hear comedian Laura Smyth, who discovered the importance of sleep as she underwent cancer treatment, plus Professor Lindsay Hall uses golden poo donors to cure serious infections and Professor Nicholas Embleton’s life is saved by a stem cell transplant.
And there are loads more episodes to enjoy in the feed too.
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0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Andrew Hunter Murray, host of The Naked Week, a brand new comedy where you'll |
0:06.5 | probably find this kind of thing. |
0:08.2 | Nigel Farage, got into a punch-up with a wumble. |
0:10.1 | On the moon. |
0:10.8 | Don't be ridiculous, Duncan, there are no wumbles on the moon. |
0:13.4 | And this sort of thing. |
0:14.6 | You, Les, it's made Sadiq Khan, London's most unpopular mayor since Dick Whittington |
0:18.7 | charged his cat 12 quid to enter its own litter tray. |
0:22.7 | So join me as we go behind the headlines with unexpected guests and much satirical silliness. |
0:27.9 | The Naked Week. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. Music, radio, podcasts. |
0:35.5 | Oh, here she is. I'm Kiry Pritchin McLean, and I'm just hopping on this feed |
0:39.1 | because I really want to tell you about the second series of Best Medicine from BBC Radio 4. |
0:43.8 | It's a comedy show that celebrates medicines inspiring, funny and fascinating, past, present and future. |
0:49.9 | Now, each week, a load of top doctors, scientists, experts and comedians |
0:53.5 | try to convince me what's the best medicine, |
0:56.7 | whether it's futuristic origami surgical robots, |
1:00.1 | life-changing pineapple UTI vaccines, |
1:02.7 | Victorian scandal magazines, denial, sleep, |
1:05.6 | life-saving stem cell transplants, gold poo donors, |
1:08.6 | or even crying, it's always something worth celebrating. |
1:12.8 | Now, if you like what you're here in this dose, you can listen to loads more episodes by searching |
1:17.1 | for Best Medicine on BBC Sounds. |
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