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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...