Medicine
5 Live Investigates. Cancer 'Cure' Investigation. Audio, 47 minutes
An unlicensed and unproven treatment being illegally sold as a possible cure for cancer.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Charles Moore on Gordon Hamilton-Fairley. Audio, 30 minutes
Cancer pioneer Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, killed by an IRA bomb when he was just 45.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Natural Histories. Daffodils. Audio, 28 minutes
Brett Westwood explores the role daffodils play in art, medicine, literature and belief.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Problem of Pain - A Slow Motion Catastrophe. Audio, 28 minutes
Dr Sarah Goldingay explores groundbreaking research into relieving chronic pain.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
One Health: The Vet Will See You Now. Audio, 28 minutes
Graham Easton compares the veterinary patient journey to the NHS. Can lessons be learnt?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Doctor's Dementia. Audio, 28 minutes
A doctor's perspective on dementia - from the inside.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
File on 4 Investigates. Treating Stroke: The Doctors' Dilemma. Audio, 38 minutes
Does a leading stroke drug cause more harm than good?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Truth About... The Truth About AIDS, AIDS in Uganda. Audio, 28 minutes
Leading Ugandan doctor, Peter Mugyenyi, on the realities of HIV therapy in his country
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything, Anna Bertha's Hand. Audio, 15 minutes
Kelley Wilder discusses how the 1896 x-ray photograph of a hand changed medicine.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Tom Solomon on Roald Dahl. Audio, 30 minutes
Professor Tom Solomon talks about his former patient, writer Roald Dahl.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Plants: From Roots to Riches. Botanical Medicine. Audio, 15 minutes
Kathy Willis on how new opportunities opened up for finding medicines from plants.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Series 4, Noreena Hertz. Audio, 15 minutes
Noreena Hertz argues that it is sometimes very dangerous to put your trust in experts.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. Filling the Autism Gap. Audio, 27 minutes
John Waite asks why parents of some autistic children are trying unproven therapies.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. Anaesthesia. Audio, 28 minutes
Linda Geddes explores the latest research into how general anaesthetics work in the body.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Tim Key's Poetry Programme. Series 2, Medicine. Audio, 15 minutes
Tim Key takes a comic look at the thorny issue of medicine, through the medium of poetry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. Tried and Tested? Audio, 26 minutes
Calls for reform of safety testing rules after thousands of women are damaged by surgery.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Shared Planet. The Medicinal Planet. Audio, 28 minutes
Monty Don discusses discovering new medicine in the natural world.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Let There Be Dark, Seeing the Future. Audio, 15 minutes
Rupert Goodwins on the potential of the internet to improve the future for blind people.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Let There Be Dark, Long, Slow Journey through the Night. Audio, 15 minutes
Rupert Goodwins tries to find if technology can limit his isolation from blindness.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Let There Be Dark, Doctoring the Evidence. Audio, 15 minutes
Rupert Goodwins reflects on the medical experience of losing his sight.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Forum. Precision Medicine @ Aspen Ideas Festival. Audio, 41 minutes
With Margaret Hamburg, Thomas Frieden and Anthony Coles.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. The Defiance of Science. Audio, 26 minutes
The commonly used medical 'drip' that may have caused thousands of unnecessary deaths.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Series 4, Andrew Graystone. Audio, 15 minutes
Andrew Graystone argues that we are using the wrong language to talk about cancer.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
