Medicine Unboxed

ANDREW MOTION poet, novelist, and biographer, was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and was knighted in 2009. He founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work, and the Poetry By Heart competition for school children. Andrew has won the Arvon Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Eric Gregory Award, Whitbread Prize for Biography and the D...

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...

JOCELYN POOK is an award-winning British composer who has performed with artists including Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Mark Knopfler, 3 Mustaphas 3, PJ Harvey and as a member of the Communards. She has released several albums including Deluge (1997), Flood (1999) and Untold Things (2003). Jocelyn’s score for Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut received a Chicago Film Award and a Golden Globe nomi...

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...

JO SHAPCOTT, poet, has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition. Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the Costa Book Award. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Jo is patron of Medicine Unboxed.

JO SHAPCOTT, poet, has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition. Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the Costa Book Award. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Jo is patron of Medicine Unboxed.

JO SHAPCOTT, poet, has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition. Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the Costa Book Award. In 2011 Jo Shapcott was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Jo is patron of Medicine Unboxed.

Lionel Shriver talks to Sam Guglani at Medicine Unboxed 2013: Voice. Lionel Shriver's novels include The New Republic, So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.

VOICE - Birmingham Medical School Choir by Medicine Unboxed

VOICE - Birmingham Medical School Choir by Medicine Unboxed

My Voice: Rhys Morgan is a consumer watchdog, science activist, and health blogger from Wales who first received acclaim in 2010 when, at the age of 15, he played a key role in raising awareness of the health risks of Miracle Mineral Supplement.

VOICE - Birmingham Medical School Choir by Medicine Unboxed

Mark Waters, Sean Elyan and Sam Guglani contribute to the 'Your Voice' theme of Medicine Unboxed 2013.

The Medical Voice - Deborah Bowman, Julian Baggini and Charlotte Blease in discussion.

The Heard Voice - Eleanor Longden, David Sturgeon and Richard Bentall in discussion.

The Engaged Voice - Raymond Tallis, Roger Taylor and Allyson Pollock at Medicine Unboxed 2013.

Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.

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...

Eduardo Miranda is a Brazilian composer of chamber and electroacoustic pieces but is most notable in the United Kingdom for his scientific research into computer music, particularly in the field of human-machine interfaces where brain waves will replace keyboards and voice commands to permit the disabled to express themselves musically.

Hidden Voice - Stephen Grosz in conversation with Sam Guglani. Stephen Grosz is a practicing psychoanalyst—he has worked with patients for more than twenty-five years. Born in America, educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oxford University, he teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London. He lives in London.

The Imagined Voice - Jackie Kay and Jo Shapcott in conversation with Sam Guglani.

Professor Raymond Tallis is a philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic and was until recently a physician and clinical scientist. In the Economist's Intelligent Life Magazine (Autumn 2009) he was listed as one of the top living polymaths in the world.

Remarkable Voice - Jocelyn Pook, Melanie Pappenheim and Rebecca Askew in conversation.

The Sung Voice - Bob Heath, Eduardo Miranda and Raymond Tallis.

Surgical Voice - Roger Kneebone At Medicine Unboxed 2013. Roger Kneebone trained first as a general and trauma surgeon, working both in the UK and in Southern Africa. After finishing his specialist training, he decided to become a general practitioner and joined a large group practice in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. In the 1990s he pioneered an innovative national training programme for minor surgery wi...