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Medicine Unboxed

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Medicine Unboxed aims to inspire debate and medicine and to inform its culture. Medicine Unboxed is for the public, for health professionals and for all of us who will be patients one day. Despite scientific advances, medicine faces moral, political and social challenges that require the pursuit of meaning as much as knowledge. The arts and other disciplines can help to illuminate the central questions and to foster awe, empathy and humility. Our annual events - Unboxed (2009), Stories (2010), Values (2011), Belief (2012), Voice (2013), Frontiers (2014), Mortality (2015), Wonder (2016), Maps (2017), Love (2018) and MATTER (2023) - each have drawn audiences of over three hundred people. Our Soundcloud and Vimeo archives have been seen and heard by tens of thousands of people. Our speakers are writers, politicians, philosophers, scientists, musicians and performers. The events are theatrical, moving and challenging and are performances in themselves.
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Episodes

VOICE - Bob Heath

BOB HEATH has been the music therapist at Sobell House Hospice in Oxford since 2004 and also lectures in music therapy at the University of the West of England. He runs a range of training courses for music therapists and health care practitioners including a number of Creative Songwriting courses with colleague Jane Lings. He continues to pursue his interest in other music therapy contexts and works regularly in community mental health and learning disability settings.

Nov 28, 201313 min

VOICE - Andrew Motion

Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.

Nov 28, 201351 min

VOICE - Rhys Morgan - MY VOICE

My Voice: Rhys Morgan is a consumer watchdog, science activist, and health blogger from Wales who first received acclaim in 2010 when, at the age of 15, he played a key role in raising awareness of the health risks of Miracle Mineral Supplement.

Nov 28, 201314 min

VOICE - Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver talks to Sam Guglani at Medicine Unboxed 2013: Voice. Lionel Shriver's novels include The New Republic, So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.

Nov 28, 201346 min

VOICE - Jo Shapcott

JO SHAPCOTT, poet, has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition. Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the Costa Book Award. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Jo is patron of Medicine Unboxed.

Nov 28, 20131 min

VOICE - Jo Shapcott - The Roses

JO SHAPCOTT, poet, has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition. Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the Costa Book Award. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Jo is patron of Medicine Unboxed.

Nov 28, 20132 min

VOICE - Jo Shapcott - Back at Guy's

JO SHAPCOTT, poet, has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition. Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the Costa Book Award. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Jo is patron of Medicine Unboxed.

Nov 28, 20131 min

VOICE - Melanie Pappenheim & Rebecca Askew

MELANIE PAPPENHEIM has devised work with many leading multimedia groups such as Lumiere & Son, DV8 Physical Theatre (Strange Fish) and The Shout, of which she is a founder member. Melanie can be heard on TV and film soundtracks including Derek Jarman's Edward II and The Garden and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. REBECCA ASKEW is a performer and songwriter. She studied jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has been a member of The Shout, the award-winning 16 piece vocal ba...

Nov 28, 201359 sec

VOICE - Jocelyn Pook -the musicality of answerphone messages

JOCELYN POOK is an award-winning British composer who has performed with artists including Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Mark Knopfler, 3 Mustaphas 3, PJ Harvey and as a member of the Communards. She has released several albums including Deluge (1997), Flood (1999) and Untold Things (2003). Jocelyn’s score for Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut received a Chicago Film Award and a Golden Globe nomination.

Nov 28, 20133 min

VOICE - Melanie Pappenheim & Rebecca Askew

MELANIE PAPPENHEIM has devised work with many leading multimedia groups such as Lumiere & Son, DV8 Physical Theatre (Strange Fish) and The Shout, of which she is a founder member. Melanie can be heard on TV and film soundtracks including Derek Jarman's Edward II and The Garden and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. REBECCA ASKEW is a performer and songwriter. She studied jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has been a member of The Shout, the award-winning 16 piece vocal ba...

Nov 28, 20134 min

VOICE - Andrew Motion

ANDREW MOTION poet, novelist, and biographer, was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and was knighted in 2009. He founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work, and the Poetry By Heart competition for school children. Andrew has won the Arvon Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Eric Gregory Award, Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Nov 28, 20133 min

VOICE - Melanie Pappenheim & Rebecca Askew - Astounding, moving, enchanting

MELANIE PAPPENHEIM has devised work with many leading multimedia groups such as Lumiere & Son, DV8 Physical Theatre (Strange Fish) and The Shout, of which she is a founder member. Melanie can be heard on TV and film soundtracks including Derek Jarman's Edward II and The Garden and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. REBECCA ASKEW is a performer and songwriter. She studied jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has been a member of The Shout, the award-winning 16 piece vocal ba...

Nov 28, 20133 min

VOICE - A Cole Porter- inspired love song from David, one of Bob Heath's patients

BOB HEATH has been the music therapist at Sobell House Hospice in Oxford since 2004 and also lectures in music therapy at the University of the West of England. He runs a range of training courses for music therapists and health care practitioners including a number of Creative Songwriting courses with colleague Jane Lings. He continues to pursue his interest in other music therapy contexts and works regularly in community mental health and learning disability settings.

Nov 28, 20133 min

VOICE - Bob Heath's dying patient, Eileen, sings on the day of her death

BOB HEATH has been the music therapist at Sobell House Hospice in Oxford since 2004 and also lectures in music therapy at the University of the West of England. He runs a range of training courses for music therapists and health care practitioners including a number of Creative Songwriting courses with colleague Jane Lings. He continues to pursue his interest in other music therapy contexts and works regularly in community mental health and learning disability settings.

Nov 28, 20133 min

VOICE - Eduardo Miranda's musical robots

EDUARDO MIRANDA is a composer working at the crossroads of music and science, whose music is informed and inspired by his research into Artificial Intelligence. In 2011-2012 he was composer-in-residence at the Science Museum, London, working with Lottolab Studio. He has composed music for symphonic orchestras, chamber groups, solo instruments - with and without live electronics - and electroacoustic music. Eduardo’s music has been broadcast and performed at festivals and concerts worldwide.

Nov 28, 201324 sec

VOICE - Surreal voices from Eduardo Miranda

EDUARDO MIRANDA is a composer working at the crossroads of music and science, whose music is informed and inspired by his research into Artificial Intelligence. In 2011-2012 he was composer-in-residence at the Science Museum, London, working with Lottolab Studio. He has composed music for symphonic orchestras, chamber groups, solo instruments - with and without live electronics - and electroacoustic music. Eduardo’s music has been broadcast and performed at festivals and concerts worldwide.

Nov 28, 20131 min

VOICE - Eduardo Miranda - VOICES

EDUARDO MIRANDA is a composer working at the crossroads of music and science, whose music is informed and inspired by his research into Artificial Intelligence. In 2011-2012 he was composer-in-residence at the Science Museum, London, working with Lottolab Studio. He has composed music for symphonic orchestras, chamber groups, solo instruments - with and without live electronics - and electroacoustic music. Eduardo’s music has been broadcast and performed at festivals and concerts worldwide.

Nov 28, 20131 min

VOICE - Roger Kneebone - voices in the operating theatre

ROGER KNEEBONE, former surgeon and GP, is now Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London where he explores the synergies between clinical care, biomedical science, art, humanities and performance through a collaboration between clinicians, educationalists, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, design engineers and experts from the visual and performing arts.

Nov 28, 201326 sec

VOICE - Roger Kneebone - the duty to challenge

ROGER KNEEBONE, former surgeon and GP, is now Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London where he explores the synergies between clinical care, biomedical science, art, humanities and performance through a collaboration between clinicians, educationalists, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, design engineers and experts from the visual and performing arts.

Nov 28, 201352 sec

VOICE - Roger Kneebone - the frameworks that support communication in the operating theatre

ROGER KNEEBONE, former surgeon and GP, is now Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London where he explores the synergies between clinical care, biomedical science, art, humanities and performance through a collaboration between clinicians, educationalists, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, design engineers and experts from the visual and performing arts.

Nov 28, 20131 min

VOICE - Questions for Fi Glover

FI GLOVER, ranked amongst the top ten British voices in a poll conducted by Radio Times, is a Sony award-winning broadcaster who has worked on BBC’s The Breakfast Show, Broadcasting House and Saturday Live, and for GLR and 5 Live, and was chair of judges for the Orange prize for fiction in 2009. She presents The Listening Project, a partnership between BBC Radio 4, BBC local and national radio stations, and the British Library that captures the nation in conversation.

Nov 28, 20133 min

VOICE - Fi Glover

FI GLOVER, ranked amongst the top ten British voices in a poll conducted by Radio Times, is a Sony award-winning broadcaster who has worked on BBC’s The Breakfast Show, Broadcasting House and Saturday Live, and for GLR and 5 Live, and was chair of judges for the Orange prize for fiction in 2009. She presents The Listening Project, a partnership between BBC Radio 4, BBC local and national radio stations, and the British Library that captures the nation in conversation.

Nov 28, 20131 min
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