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  • Billion Dollar Deals and How They Changed Your World

    Episode One - Health

    Broadcast
    2017 (58 mins)

    In the late seventies, Henry Gadsden, the CEO of a large pharmaceutical company told a business magazine that the industry had a problem. In treating disease, they were limiting their client base. But by...

  • How to Die: Simon’s Choice

    How to Die: Simon’s Choice

    Broadcast
    2016 (84 mins)

    Simon is a successful businessman with a loving family and large circle of friends whose world falls apart when he is diagnosed with an aggressive form of motor neurone disease and given two years to live....

  • The Big C and Me

    The Big C and Me - Ep1

    Broadcast
    2016 (58 mins)

    The Big C & Me follows nine people across the country living with cancer. Filmed over a year we see them experience everything the disease has to throw at them. From diagnosis, through treatment to whatever...

  • The Big C and Me

    The Big C and Me Ep2

    Broadcast
    2016 (58 mins)

    In Episode Two we follow three families whose lives are reshaped by a cancer diagnosis. We meet 83 year old June and her daughters in the consulting room as she learns she has pancreatic cancer. It’s a...

  • The Big C and Me

    The Big C and Me - Ep3

    Broadcast
    2016 (58 mins)

    In the last episode, three people facing up to the reality of life or death with cancer. We meet 33 year old Mark as he receives treatment in the chemotherapy unit at the Christie Hospital in Manchester....

  • The Truth About Success and Failure in Medicine

    Ep1 - The Business of Failure

    Broadcast
    2016 (26 mins)

    In a new four-part series for BBC World Service and The Open University, broadcaster and medic Dr Kevin Fong explores what healthcare can learn from other organisations that succeed and fail. In this...

  • The Truth About Success and Failure in Medicine

    Ep2 - Faster, Better, Cheaper

    Broadcast
    2016 (26 mins)

    Dr Kevin Fong continues to explore the boundaries between the medical profession and other industries for valuable lessons that might be of use to us all. The second programme recounts the ups and downs of...

  • The Truth About Success and Failure in Medicine

    Ep3 - Going Lean: Health in the Toyota Way

    Broadcast
    2016 (26 mins)

    In the third programme in the series, Dr Kevin Fong explores the concept of ‘lean’ in healthcare. He visits Toyota’s largest car assembly plant in the United States and discovers how the company’s...

  • The Truth About Success and Failure in Medicine

    Ep4 - Failing Gracefully

    Broadcast
    2016 (26 mins)

    Dr Kevin Fong concludes his exploration of the boundaries between the medical profession and other industries for valuable lessons that might be of use to us all. In this final episode, Kevin talks to...

  • Great Ormond Street

    Mend My Brain

    Broadcast
    2015 (59 mins)

    Great Ormond Street is Britain’s leading hospital for treating children with serious diseases of the brain - from tumours to epilepsy to rare neurovascular conditions. To save lives, doctors have no...