Best Medicine

Best Medicine

Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by funny and fascinating comedians, doctors, scientists and historians to celebrate medicine's inspiring past, present and future.

Best Medicine

Episodes (21 available)

Best Medicine, Series 3, 1 - Rubbish, Home Births, Collaboration

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

29 Jul 2026

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 2, 7. Bonus Episode - Extra Dose

A Petri dish of funny and fascinating extra unheard bits from Series 2.

24 Dec 2024

41 mins

Best Medicine, Series 2, 6. Pain Management, Organoids, Prosthetic Leg Covers

Pain management takes on tiny beating hearts in a dish and prosthetic legs.

24 Dec 2024

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 2, 5. Books, Poetry, Scandal, Writing

Kiri opens the book on literary medicines in this special from the Hay Festival.

17 Dec 2024

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 2, 4. CAR T-cells, Ritual, Water, Crying

Revolutionary reprogrammed cells that kill cancer, or could crying be the best medicine?

10 Dec 2024

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 2, 3. Sleep, FMTs, Dr Charles Drew, Stem Cell Transplantation

Laura Smyth on sleep, strangers become blood brothers, and what exactly is a ‘crapsule’?

3 Dec 2024

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 2, 2. Sweating In Nature, Animals, Transplantation, Horticulture

Zoe Lyons sweats outside, whales inspire a heart treatment and transplants transform lives

26 Nov 2024

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 2, 1. MV140, Origami Surgical Capsules, Denial, Defibrillators

Ingestible origami robots battle against a revolutionary pineapple-flavoured UTI vaccine.

19 Nov 2024

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 2, Best Medicine: Series 2 - time for your second dose!

Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back with your second dose of Best Medicine!

12 Nov 2024

1 min

Best Medicine, Series 1, 10. Epidurals, Embroidery, Play, Death

From birth to death via embroidery and play, what will Kiri choose as the Best Medicine?

12 Dec 2023

29 mins

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