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  • 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...

  • Great Ormond Street

    Fight to Breathe

    Broadcast
    2015 (59 mins)

    Great Ormond Street Hospital is the last chance for children in the UK whose lungs are failing because of cystic fibrosis and other conditions. In a few very severe cases each year, their only hope of...

  • Great Ormond Street

    Fix My Genes

    Broadcast
    2015 (59 mins)

    In the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital, doctors strive to save the lives of children with life-threatening congenital diseases. They must attempt treatments which have very...

  • Don’t Panic: How To End Poverty in 15 Years

    Don’t Panic - The Truth About Population

    Broadcast
    2015 (59 mins)

    With the world’s population at 7 billion and still growing we often look at the future with dread. In ‘Don’t Panic - The Truth About Population’, world famous Swedish statistical showman Hans Rosling...

  • Britain’s Great War

    Episode 4 - The Eleventh Hour

    Broadcast
    2014 (59 mins)

    In the final part of his landmark series on how the First World War affected the lives of the British people - and created what we know as modern Britain - Jeremy Paxman describes how the country comes to...