Best Medicine. Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Best Medicine
- Radio panel show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2022 - 2023
- 11 episodes (1 series)
Panel show pilot hosted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean about the inspiring past, present and future of medicine.
- Due to return for Series 2
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 3 - Breast Medicine
Best Medicine. Image shows left to right: Sarah Kerruish, Jordan Gray, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Lindsey Fitzharris, Samantha Terry
Comedian Jordan Gray champions boob jobs, historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris shares her own breast cancer recovery story, and Sarah Kerruish unveils MIA, a life-saving AI algorithm.
Further details
Joining Kiri are friend of the show historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris who shares her own breast cancer recovery story with a detour via Victorian Breast Cancer surgery, comedian Jordan Gray champions boob jobs, Sarah Kerruish unveils the life-saving power of AI with MIA, an algorithm that can read 80,000 mammograms in a weekend, and Dr Samantha Terry puts forward a case for injectable radioactive therapies that can destroy cancer cells you can't even see.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 24th October 2023
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
| Date | Time | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 31st October 2023 | 10:00pm | Radio 4 Extra |
Catch-up
Cast & crew
| Kiri Pritchard-McLean | Host / Presenter |
| Lindsey Fitzharris (as Dr Lindsey Fitzharris) | Self |
| Jordan Gray | Self |
| Sarah Kerruish | Self |
| Samantha Terry (as Dr Samantha Terry) | Self |
| Kiri Pritchard-McLean | Writer |
| Ben Rowse | Writer |
| Charlie George | Writer |
| Ben Worsfield | Producer |
| Simon Nicholls | Executive Producer |
| Tashi Radha | Assistant Producer |
| Andy Jones (as Andrew Jones) | Composer |