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 cures for cancer, world-first lifesaving heart operations, epidurals, therapy, dancing, faith or laughter - it's always something worth celebrating.
Episodes
- 12 Episodes
Brilliant
05/12/2023
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.
It is
23 Jan
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.
Medicine and laughs
22/11/2023
It reminds me a little bit of Infinite Monkey Cage. The guests are either experts in their field or comic talents. Sometimes the best laughs come from places you don’t expect. The medicinal science is not dumbed down but is accessible. I have always discovered new things from each show. Kiri is an excellent host. Quick wit but not stealing the limelight from the true stars, the people at the cutting edge of new medical thinking. I also like how it’s not all technology and pharmacy. There is also some really good discussion about other ways to be well linked to your mood and mental health.
Spoilt
05/12/2023
A potentially interesting podcast, ruined by the over-aching BBCness; complete with weak and unnecessary sexist and racist quips. That’s a shame.
About
Information
- CreatorBBC Radio 4
- Years Active2K
- Episodes12
- RatingClean
- Copyright© (C) BBC 2023
- Show Website
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