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Michael Smith on community medicine (1979)

Genre

Interview

Dr Michael Smith on community medicine. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Matthews People: Richard Gordon, author (1985)

The guest today is Dr Richard Gordon, born September 15, 1921. He is an English surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere has written several novels, screenplays for film and television and...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Alternative medicine (1985)

A series of programmes which sets out to clear up the myths surrounding alternative medicines. In the series Neeve Ferguson visits various clinics of alternative medicine, ranging from the better known...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Sir James Black is joint winner of Nobel Prize for medicine (1988)

Genre

Interview

James Black, Professor of Analytical Pharmacology at Kings College Medical School, London reacts to news he has jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine with US colleagues George Hitchings and Gertrude...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

British doctor tortured in Chile (1976)

Genre

News report; Press conference

Sheila Cassidy is a British doctor who went to Chile to practice medicine. While she was there, she treated a political opponent of the new regime, and was arrested and tortured as a result. On her return...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

1993 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1993)

Genre

Interview

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1993 was jointly awarded to Richard J Roberts and Philip A Sharp for discovery of split genes. One of them (not identified) reacts to receiving the award and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Network - Alternative cures (1981)

Genre

Special; Documentary; Interview

Alternative Cures. A Network programme, presented by Ian(?) Mann(?). Looks at alternatives to conventional ideas of medical care including preventative cures and self-help concepts, as well as New Age...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rhino horn trade (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on rhinoceros being hunted by poachers for their horn which is used in Chinese medicine and the fight to prevent this. Dr Esmond Bradley Martin on results of research into the properties of the horn...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Network (1980)

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Vox pop

Network from Metro Radio, Newcastle: Joe Poulter investigates supernatural healing in award-winning documentary A Question of Faith. Includes interview with David Provern, local organiser for World...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Smallpox outbreak in Birmingham (1978)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on an outbreak of smallpox at a medical laboratory in Birmingham where anatomical photographer Janet Parker has caught the disease. The WHO’s Dr Ian Carter is flying in to investigate and some...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio