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Best Medicine. Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Best Medicine

Best Medicine

  • Radio panel show
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2022 - 2024
  • 17 episodes (2 series)

Panel show pilot hosted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean about the inspiring past, present and future of medicine.

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Best Medicine. Kiri Pritchard-McLean

Key details

Genre
Panel Show
Broadcast
2022 - 2024
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
17 (1 pilot + 2 series)
Star
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Writers
Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Ben Rowse, Pravanya Pillay, Edward Easton, Laura Claxton and Charlie George
Producers
Ben Worsfield, Tashi Radha and Simon Nicholls
Company

Hosted by award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Best Medicine is an uplifting panel discussion show for BBC Radio 4 that celebrates the inspiring past, present and future of medicine.

It's all about little-known facts and deep dives into the science, happy accidents and pioneering historical characters of medicine. Kiri will challenge a panel of medical experts and comedians to each make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine', and each guest will champion an invention, a technique, a pill, potion or person. Whether it's world-changing science, an obscure invention or an unsung hero, it's always something worth celebrating.

Did you know there's a pill made out of cameras you can swallow to check for cancer? Or that you can 3D print artificial ovaries, blood vessels, even pancreases? Or that the first ever successful tooth transplant was on the head of a cockerel?

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Additional details

Production
Event
Soundtrack
Theme tune composed by Andrew Jones.

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Thursday 7th July 2022 at 11pm on BBC Radio 4
Next repeats
  1. Series 2, Episode 1: Tuesday at 10pm on Radio 4 Extra
  2. Series 2, Episode 2: Tuesday 3rd December at 10pm on Radio 4 Extra
Most recent repeats

Recording details

  • Rudolf Steiner House (London) - Pilot
  • Wonderville (St. James) - Series 1
  • Up The Creek - Series 2
  • Hay Festival - Series 2

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