The Making of Modern Medicine

Last Edited: 05-Aug-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
05-Feb-2007 to
16-Feb-2007
  1. Hot cold wet and dry
  2. God's house the hospital
  3. The first sexual epidemic
  4. Paracelsus and the people's medicine
  5. The anatomical renaissance
  6. Early transfusion
  7. Fever
  8. Learning from the Illiterate
  9. The Coming of the GP
  10. Anatomy and the invisible hand
Andrew Cunningham
Readers: Tamsin Greig, David Rintoul, Peter Capaldi,
Jason Watkins, Scott Handy
Produced by Adrian Washbourne
14:13, 13406, S
14:04, 13203, S
14:05, 13216, S
13:54, 13033, S
14:08, 13257, S
13:59, 11311, S
13:36, 12761, S
13:51, 12997, S
13:45, 12907, S
14:01, 13156, S
19-Feb-2007 to
02-Mar-2007
  1. Little Reading, Much seeing and
    Much Doing
  2. Making Signs
  3. A Long And Ghastly Kitchen
  4. Changing disease identity
  5. Sisters of charity
  6. Science has no sex
  7. The dark side of obstetrics
  8. Anaesthesia "A Yankee Dodge"
  9. The disease is its own preventative
  10. Stopping the Rot
Andrew Cunningham
Readers: Tamsin Greig, David Rintoul, Peter Capaldi,
Jason Watkins, Scott Handy
Produced by Adrian Washbourne
13:58, 13096, S
13:59, 13124, S
13:51, 12994, S
14:01, 13153, S
14:01, 13150, S
13:49, 12954, S
14:02, 13158, S
13:56, 13071, S
13:57, 13083, S
13:56, 13077, S
05-Mar-2007 to
16-Mar-2007
  1. Culturing the Germ
  2. Transforming Plague
  3. The ministry of healing
  4. Flinging the tropics open to civilization
  5. Near Pavilions
  6. You are what you eat
  7. It looks like a miracle
  8. Free at the point of need
  9. The crippler
  10. Transplant
Andrew Cunningham
Readers: Tamsin Greig, David Rintoul, Peter Capaldi,
Jason Watkins, Scott Handy
Produced by Adrian Washbourne
13:58, 13099, S
13:56, 13068, S
13:51, 12990, S
14:00, 13130, S
13:54, 13099, S
13:19, 12486, S
13:56, 13079, S
13:21, 12525, S
14:02, 13171, S
13:52, 13012, S