Best Medicine

Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by Darren Harriott to talk cancer-curing microbubbles, life-enhancing dancing, the birth of plastic surgery in WWI and the life saving app, GoodSAM.

A funny and fascinating panel discussion show that celebrates medicine's inspiring past, present and future, hosted by award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean. It's all about little-known facts and deep dives into the weird and wonderful science, happy accidents and pioneering characters of medicine.

Kiri challenges a panel of medical experts and a comedian to each make a case for what they think is the "best medicine", and each guest champions an invention, a technique, a pill, potion or person. Whether it's world-changing science, an obscure invention, an everyday treatment or an unsung hero, it's always something worth celebrating.

Joining Kiri this week are medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris with the story of the pioneering World War I surgeon who transformed wounded soldiers faces, comedian Darren Harriott and his love of dancing, biomedical engineer Professor Eleanor Stride with cancer curing micro bubbles, brain surgeon Professor Mark Wilson with the GoodSAM app that can summon a first-aider at the touch of a button, and the man who owes his life to it.