Best Medicine is your weekly dose of laughter, hope and incredible medicine. Award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by a funny and fascinating panel of comedians, doctors, scientists, and historians to celebrate medicine’s inspiring past, present and future. Each week, Kiri challenges the panel to make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine', and each guest champions anything from world-changing science or an obscure invention, to an everyday treatment, an uplifting worldview, an unsung hero or a futuristic cure. In this clip, historian Subhadra Das celebrates the incredible medical pioneer of blood transfusion, Dr Charles Drew. If you enjoy this small dose, just search for Best Medicine on BBC Sounds where you can listen to the episode in full. It's Series 2, Episode 3 – where you’ll also hear comedian Laura Smyth, who discovered the importance of sleep as she underwent cancer treatment, plus Professor Lindsay Hall uses golden poo donors to cure serious infections and Professor Nicholas Embleton’s life is saved by a stem cell transplant. And there are loads more episodes to enjoy in the feed too.
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Oh, here she is.
I'm Kiri Pritchard maclean and I'm just hopping on this feed because I really want to tell you about the second series of Best Medicine from BBC Radio 4.
It's a comedy show that celebrates medicine's inspiring, funny and fascinating past, present and future.
Now, each week, a load of top doctors, scientists, experts and comedians try to convince me what's the best medicine.
Whether it's futuristic origami, surgical, robots, life changing pineapple, UTI vaccines, Victorian scandal, magazines, denial, sleep, life saving, stem cell transplants, gold poo donors, or even crying, it's always something worth celebrating.
Now, if you like what you hear in this dose, you can listen to loads more episodes by searching for Best Medicine on BBC Sounds.
Sir Padra, what do you think is the best medicine?
So, Kiri, I think the best medicine is Dr.
Charles Drew.
Okay, how do I take him Once a week until the smart goes.
You'Re better than that, Curie.