JACKIE KAY was an adopted child of Scottish/Nigerian descent brought up by white parents in Glasgow, a heritage she explored in Red Dust Road, an account of her search for her natural parents. She is one of Britain’s best-known poets, appearing frequently on radio and TV programmes on poetry and culture. She has won the Signal Poetry Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and was the British Book Awards Decibel Writer of the Year for her collection of short stories Wish I Was Here.
Nov 24, 2013•3 min
JACKIE KAY was an adopted child of Scottish/Nigerian descent brought up by white parents in Glasgow, a heritage she explored in Red Dust Road, an account of her search for her natural parents. She is one of Britain’s best-known poets, appearing frequently on radio and TV programmes on poetry and culture. She has won the Signal Poetry Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and was the British Book Awards Decibel Writer of the Year for her collection of short stories Wish I Was Here.
Nov 24, 2013•1 min
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 24, 2013•3 min
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 24, 2013•45 sec
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 23, 2013•2 min
Sam Guglani in discussion with Colin Leys, Richard Horton, Clare Short and Matthew Flinders on the HNS, equality, health and the broader social determinants of health that may go unaddressed. Have the values that created the NHS changed, and are we handing over the NHS to organisations that are, in Colin Leys' words "not dedicated to community interests but to shareholder interests"?
Jan 21, 2013•25 min
Ray Tallis and Rupert Sheldrake discuss the limitations of reason, the dogma of science and the evolution of knowledge in medicine.
Dec 18, 2012•36 min
Questions on how to improve patient communication, listening to the authentic voice of patients, and realising and clarifying the goals of medicine.
Nov 28, 2012•29 min
Sam Guglani talks to Ray Tallis, Iona Health, Gabriel Scally and Sean Elyan about how medicine is communicated, the hiatus of understanding of the patient context and the erosion of trust in medicine and medical professionals.
Nov 28, 2012•28 min
The Medicine Unboxed 2012 closing session on Communicating with the Public with contributions from Ray Tallis, Iona Health, Gabriel Scally and Sean Elyan.
Nov 28, 2012•29 min
Questions for Colin Leys, Clare Short, Richard Horton and Matthew Flinders on the need for time in health, the collection and use of information, the market-led NHS, the medical media and how to take effective action in the public sector.
Nov 28, 2012•34 min
Richard Horton, Colin Leys, Clare Short and Matthew Flinders deliver short position statements on health and justice at Medicine Unboxed 2012.
Nov 28, 2012•24 min
From the starting point that the 21st century will be defined by the management of public expectations, Professor Matthew Flinders argues that some parts of society have become democratically decadent - better at expressing their rights rather than demonstrating their responsibilities. He invites us to step into the arena and make a difference - rather than heckling from the sidelines.
Nov 28, 2012•27 min
"We are all patients - open to being coerced, and uncertain in a position of vulnerability" says Sam Guglani, closing the first day of Medicine Unboxed 2012.
Nov 28, 2012•55 sec
'Doctor' Adam Kay teaches us how to successfully set up in private practice avoiding extensive medical training, student loans and expensive medical equipment.
Nov 28, 2012•23 min
Questions from the Medicine Unboxed audience for Sebastian Faulks on lies and fiction in the medical encounter, his account of mental illness in 'Human Traces', the character of Stephen in 'Birdsong' and narrative and storytelling in consultation.
Nov 28, 2012•15 min
Sam Guglani interviews novelist, journalist and broadcaster Sebastian Faulks, author of The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray.
Nov 28, 2012•31 min
Questions from the Medicine Unboxed 2012 audience for Rhidian Brook and Richard Holloway on religious conviction and patient care, the nature of truth and hope, and the role of 'consoling fiction' in managing conversations about death.
Nov 28, 2012•11 min
Rhidian Brook and Richard Holloway discuss faith, uncertainty, dogma, science and theology with Sam Guglani at Medicine Unboxed 2012.
Nov 28, 2012•42 min
Adam Kay performs 'I Know Hymns So Well', 'OCD', 'My Gordon Brown-Eyed Girl', 'Ain't No Sunshine', 'The Girl with Emphysema', 'The Son of a Pizza Man' and 'A Lot Like Jesus'.
Nov 28, 2012•6 min
Questions from the audience for Richard Horton, Iona Heath and Jane Macnaughton on the role of health economics, medical science, the question of valid knowledge in medicine and the nature of communication between doctor and patient.
Nov 28, 2012•18 min
Richard Horton, Iona Heath and Jane Macnaughton discuss the interface between patient and healthcare professionals and the way that insight and technical facts play out in the consultation.
Nov 28, 2012•48 min
Adam Kay choruses Medicine Unboxed on anaesthetists and the machine that goes beep, the perils of smoking, the downside of stammering and Iranian Men.
Nov 28, 2012•6 min
Questions for Charles Fernyhough and Tim Parks from the Medicine Unboxed audience - on alternative medicine, Christianity and role of the physical, spiritual and emotional in mental illness.
Nov 28, 2012•16 min
Charles Fernyhough and Tim Parks in discussion on materialism, experience and the existential phenomenon that - in Tim's words - dogs live in a world of pleasure beyond anything we know.
Nov 28, 2012•20 min
"I am my body. I am not my body." So begins Tim Parks at Medicine Unboxed 2012 on his experience of illness, treatment and medicine and his experience of mortal life.
Nov 28, 2012•24 min
Charles Fernyhough on the 'rush to the neuro' in the popular press, can neuroscience can explain the human experience, if there is such a thing as neurotruth - and how it might affect the way we see ourselves.
Nov 28, 2012•27 min
Questions from the audience for Jo Shapcott: should imagination be prescribed, metaphor and the collective imagination, empathy and imagination as core clinical values, the roll of poetry in medical education and why hypotheses don't arrive from heaven.
Nov 28, 2012•12 min
John Burnside talks to Sam Guglani and Jo Shapcott about metaphor and imagination and its force in the world. We hear John reads his poem "First Signs of Ageing" via Soundcloud.
Nov 28, 2012•12 min
What is the imagination for? Sam Guglani and Jo Shapcott explore cracks in the edifice of reason, and what new ways we can understand the imagination. Jo draws on her experience of her own illness and how the imagination works with a diagnosis of serious illness - her "cellular imagination".
Nov 28, 2012•20 min
