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Radio 4,02 Sep 2026,28 mins

Series Series 3

6 - Team Sports, Making Sense, Pet Dog Blood Donors, Board Games

Best Medicine

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Joining Kiri Pritchard-McLean this week is comedian Josh Pugh who makes the case for the life lessons learnt in Team Sports. Professor Julia Simner explores how our senses shape reality and talks to Kiri about a new pair of AI glasses that are helping people with dementia, Veterinary Ophthalmologist Dr Serena Maini champions the dogs helping to save other dogs' lives through blood donation, and writer Tim Clare rolls the dice for Board Games. 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: Tim Clare, Dr Serena Maini, Josh Pugh and Professor Julia Simner Written by 鈥奅dward Easton, Mel Owen, 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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