Winter Bugs: Hand Sanitisers
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
With offices and schools set to a soundtrack of sniffles, science presenter and YouTuber Greg Foot is on mission to find 'The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread' to beat the winter bugs.
Joining him for this double episode is rapper, podcaster and actor Scroobius Pip, a man for whom protecting his voice is a professional priority. Under the microscope today are those handy hand sanitisers that promise to stop bacteria and viruses in their tracks.
Virologist Wendy Barclay from Imperial College London and microbiologist Lindsay Hall from the Quadram Institute in Norwich are both on hand to help separate the facts from the fads, to decide if these products really are The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread.
Presenter: Greg Foot Producer: Michelle Martin Researcher: Amelia West Studio Managers: Emma Harth, John Boland Editors: Deborah Cohen, Rami Tzabar
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread is a BBC Science Radio Unit Production.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, |
| 0:25.3 | and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, |
| 0:29.3 | go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:41.8 | Welcome to the best thing since sliced bread. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm Greg Foote and I am on a bunk-busting mission to find the facts behind the fads |
| 0:48.9 | and to separate genuine product claims from marketing BS. |
| 0:53.3 | With offices still set to a soundtrack of sniffles, |
| 0:56.5 | we're looking today at products that claim to help protect you from the winter bugs. |
| 1:04.6 | Joining me on this crusade against the cold is Scroobius Pip, whose Twitter bio describes |
| 1:09.6 | himself as a rapper, podcaster and actor. |
| 1:12.5 | He's the host of the brilliant distraction pieces podcast where he's chatted to the likes of Simon Peg, Lauren Leuverne and Russell Brand. |
| 1:19.1 | He's a spoken word poet and hip-hop artist, borrows his name from an Edward Leia poem, |
| 1:23.7 | and has penned this track that's just perfect for today's subject. |
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