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 (25 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 3, 2 - Reformer Pilates, Persistence, Free Flaps

Jamie MacDonald’s Reformer Pilates faces stiff competition from Free Flaps and Persistence

5 Aug 2026

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 3, 3 - Horses, Breaking Bad News, Reels

Horse Therapy, Breaking Bad News and Instagram Reels – which will win?

12 Aug 2026

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 3, 4 - Fighting, Gene Therapy for Huntington’s Disease, Plants

Stephen Bailey takes a swing with Fighting vs Gene Therapy for Huntington’s and Plants.

19 Aug 2026

29 mins

Best Medicine, Series 3, 5 - Seaweed Underwear, Bubbles, Saunas

Bubbles face hot competition from seaweed underwear and saunas.

26 Aug 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

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