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1 - Rubbish, Home Births, Collaboration

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Michelle Wolf invites Kiri into the world of home births, Professor Stephen Wallace turns rubbish into medicine, and Dr Matt Clarke explains how collaboration can save lives.

Joining Kiri Pritchard-McLean this week is comedian Michelle Wolf who reflects on home births, Professor Stephen Wallace explains how old plastic bottles can be transformed into a form of Dopamine that can be used to treat Parkinson鈥檚 disease, and Dr Matt Clarke demonstrates the power of medical collaboration in helping to identify and treat brain tumours.

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, experts and historians to celebrate medicine's inspiring past, present and future.

Each week Kiri challenges a panel of experts and a comedian to make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine'. 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.

Whether it鈥檚 groundbreaking surgery, seaweed underwear, AI glasses to help people with dementia, horse therapy, sports, revolutionary gene therapy for Huntington鈥檚 disease or yesterday鈥檚 rubbish becoming tomorrow鈥檚 medicines - it鈥檚 always something worth celebrating.

Hosted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean

Featuring: Dr Matt Clarke, Professor Stephen Wallace and Michelle Wolf

Written by Edward Easton, Jordan Gray, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Ben Rowse

Producer: Tashi Radha

Executive Producer: Ben Worsfield

Theme tune composed by Andrew Jones

A Large Time production for 麻豆社 Radio 4

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