The second series of Kiri Pritchard-McLean’s Best Medicine will be transmitting on Radio 4 from 19th November for six weeks, finishing on Christmas Eve.
Hosted by award-winning Welsh Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Best Medicine is your weekly dose of laughter, hope and incredible medicine. Each show sees Kiri joined by a funny and fascinating panel of comedians, doctors, scientists, and historians to celebrate medicine’s inspiring past, present and future. They will each make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine', and this series sees them championing anything from world-changing science, an obscure invention, an every-day treatment, an uplifting worldview, an unsung hero or a futuristic cure.
Whether it’s futuristic origami surgical capsules, life-changing pineapple flavoured UTI vaccines, Victorian scandal mags, denial, sleep, tiny beating organoid hearts, lifesaving stem cell transplants, gold poo donors or even crying - it’s always something worth celebrating.
Guests for the forthcoming series include Daliso Chaponda, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Laura Smyth, Zoe Lyons, Ignacio Lopez and Desiree Burch. Series 2 also sees the return of fan favourite macabre medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris, and Radio 4 Nature Table regular ethnobotanist James Wong.
The original series of Best Medicine was nominated for four awards including Best New Radio Show (ARIAS), Moment of Comedy Gold and Moment of Behind the Scenes Brilliance (International Women's Podcast Awards) and Science and Medicine category (People's Choice Podcast Awards). All 11 episodes of series 1 are available on BBC Sounds and wherever you get your podcasts.
