1. Sobriety, Touch, Camellia Sinensis, Trust

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Joining Kiri this week are haptic technology specialist Dr Ally Barrow with the power of touch and a demonstration of virtual reality injections, mental health nurse Ed Freshwater speaks about a powerful treatment for mental illness, journalist and broadcaster Seyi Rhodes explores what happens when trust is lost in medicine, and comedian Felicity Ward offers sobriety as her best medicine.Best Medicine is your weekly dose of laughter, hope and incredible medicine. Award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by funny and fascinating comedians, doctors, scientists and historians to celebrate medicine’s inspiring past, present and future. Each week, Kiri challenges her guests to make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine', and each of them champions anything from world-changing science to an obscure invention, an every-day treatment, an uplifting worldview, an unsung hero or a futuristic cure. Whether it’s micro-robotic surgery, virtual reality syringes, Victorian clockwork surgical saws, more than a few ingenious cures for cancer, world-first lifesaving heart operations, epidurals, therapy, dancing, faith or laughter - it’s always something worth celebrating.Hosted by Kiri Pritchard-McLeanFeaturing: Dr Ally Barrow, Ed Freshwater, Seyi Rhodes and Felicity WardWritten by Edward Easton, Toussaint Douglass, Pravanya Pillay, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Ben RowseProducer: Ben WorsfieldAssistant Producer: Tashi RadhaExecutive Producer: Simon NichollsTheme tune composed by Andrew JonesA Large Time production for BBC Radio 4

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Joining Kiri this week are haptic technology specialist Dr Ally Barrow with the power of touch and a demonstration of virtual reality injections, mental health nurse Ed Freshwater speaks about a powerful treatment for mental illness, journalist and...

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