Medicine Unboxed

Iona Heath worked as an inner city general practitioner at the Caversham Group Practice in Kentish Town in London from 1975 until 2010. She was a nationally elected member of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1989 to 2009 and chaired the College’s Committee on Medical Ethics from 1998 to 2004 and the International Committee from 2006 to 2009. She has been a member of the Wo...

Camila Batmanghelidjh CBE is an Iranian-born British charity executive and author. She is best known as the founder of Kids Company, a charity which worked with inner-city children and young people in the UK.

FRONTIERS - Dajlit Nagra - Look We Have Coming To Dover - CROSSING by Medicine Unboxed

Daljit Nagra was born and brought up in West London and Sheffield. In 2003, he won the Smith/Doorstop pamphlet competition with Oh my Rub!, under the pseudonym Khan Singh Kumar, the pamphlet going on to become a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and chosen as one of The Guardian's Poetry Books of the Year. In 2004, his poem Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the Forward Prize (Best Single Poem),...

William Fiennes, John Carey, Bob Heath, Ray Tallis and Christopher Potter in discussion with Sam Guglani.

Philip Gross was born in 1952 in Cornwall, and grew up in Plymouth. With a Cornish mother and an Estonian father, Gross has emerged as one of the greatest poetic voices of displacement, conveying what Terry Eagleton views as “lost bearings and blurred frontiers” (Independent on Sunday). He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1981 and, in the following year, won the National Poetry Competition. He was rec...

FRONTIERS - Ludvig - CROSSING by Medicine Unboxed

Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and writer who practised in London, but now lives on the Isle of Skye, where he continues to write and make a living by lecturing. He is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence, and of the wider human culture in which they arise...

An artist trained in special effects prosthetics, Sophie de Oliveira Barata recognizes the creative, self-expressive possibilities that artificial limbs hold. After nearly a decade of working for medical prosthetic providers, Sophie founded the Alternative Limb Project in 2011. Her studio offers a bespoke service to amputees that either allows their prostheses to blend in with their bodies, or sta...

Horizon: Tim Dee & William Fiennes in conversation with Sam Guglani

Sarah Moss, Gabriel Weston and Shaun Elyan in conversation with Sam Guglani at Medicine Unboxed 2014.

FRONTIERS - Giles Perring - CHORUS by Medicine Unboxed

Bob Heath. Chorus. "Only man"

FI GLOVER, ranked amongst the top ten British voices in a poll conducted by Radio Times, is a Sony award-winning broadcaster who has worked on BBC’s The Breakfast Show, Broadcasting House and Saturday Live, and for GLR and 5 Live, and was chair of judges for the Orange prize for fiction in 2009. She presents The Listening Project, a partnership between BBC Radio 4, BBC local and national radio sta...

FI GLOVER, ranked amongst the top ten British voices in a poll conducted by Radio Times, is a Sony award-winning broadcaster who has worked on BBC’s The Breakfast Show, Broadcasting House and Saturday Live, and for GLR and 5 Live, and was chair of judges for the Orange prize for fiction in 2009. She presents The Listening Project, a partnership between BBC Radio 4, BBC local and national radio sta...

ROGER KNEEBONE, former surgeon and GP, is now Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London where he explores the synergies between clinical care, biomedical science, art, humanities and performance through a collaboration between clinicians, educationalists, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, design engineers and experts from the visual and performing arts.

ROGER KNEEBONE, former surgeon and GP, is now Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London where he explores the synergies between clinical care, biomedical science, art, humanities and performance through a collaboration between clinicians, educationalists, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, design engineers and experts from the visual and performing arts.

ROGER KNEEBONE, former surgeon and GP, is now Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London where he explores the synergies between clinical care, biomedical science, art, humanities and performance through a collaboration between clinicians, educationalists, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists, design engineers and experts from the visual and performing arts.

EDUARDO MIRANDA is a composer working at the crossroads of music and science, whose music is informed and inspired by his research into Artificial Intelligence. In 2011-2012 he was composer-in-residence at the Science Museum, London, working with Lottolab Studio. He has composed music for symphonic orchestras, chamber groups, solo instruments - with and without live electronics - and electroacoust...

EDUARDO MIRANDA is a composer working at the crossroads of music and science, whose music is informed and inspired by his research into Artificial Intelligence. In 2011-2012 he was composer-in-residence at the Science Museum, London, working with Lottolab Studio. He has composed music for symphonic orchestras, chamber groups, solo instruments - with and without live electronics - and electroacoust...

EDUARDO MIRANDA is a composer working at the crossroads of music and science, whose music is informed and inspired by his research into Artificial Intelligence. In 2011-2012 he was composer-in-residence at the Science Museum, London, working with Lottolab Studio. He has composed music for symphonic orchestras, chamber groups, solo instruments - with and without live electronics - and electroacoust...

BOB HEATH has been the music therapist at Sobell House Hospice in Oxford since 2004 and also lectures in music therapy at the University of the West of England. He runs a range of training courses for music therapists and health care practitioners including a number of Creative Songwriting courses with colleague Jane Lings. He continues to pursue his interest in other music therapy contexts and wo...

BOB HEATH has been the music therapist at Sobell House Hospice in Oxford since 2004 and also lectures in music therapy at the University of the West of England. He runs a range of training courses for music therapists and health care practitioners including a number of Creative Songwriting courses with colleague Jane Lings. He continues to pursue his interest in other music therapy contexts and wo...

VOICE - Melanie Pappenheim & Rebecca Askew - Darling by Medicine Unboxed

MELANIE PAPPENHEIM has devised work with many leading multimedia groups such as Lumiere & Son, DV8 Physical Theatre (Strange Fish) and The Shout, of which she is a founder member. Melanie can be heard on TV and film soundtracks including Derek Jarman's Edward II and The Garden and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. REBECCA ASKEW is a performer and songwriter. She studied jazz at the Guildhall Sc...