Comedy of the Week

Joining Kiri Pritchard-McLean this week is comedian Michelle Wolf who reflects on home births, Professor Stephen Wallace explains how old plastic bottles can be transformed into a form of Dopamine that can be used to treat Parkinson’s disease, and Dr Matt Clarke demonstrates the power of medical collaboration in helping to identify and treat brain tumours.
Best Medicine is your weekly dose of laughter, hope and incredible medicine. Award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by a funny and fascinating panel of comedians, doctors, scientists, experts and historians to celebrate medicine's inspiring past, present and future.
Each week Kiri challenges a panel of experts and a comedian to make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine'. Each guest champions anything from world-changing science or an obscure invention to an everyday treatment, an uplifting worldview, an unsung hero or a futuristic cure.
Whether it’s groundbreaking surgery, seaweed underwear, AI glasses to help people with dementia, horse therapy, sports, revolutionary gene therapy for Huntington’s disease or yesterday’s rubbish becoming tomorrow’s medicines - it’s always something worth celebrating.
Hosted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Featuring: Dr Matt Clarke, Professor Stephen Wallace and Michelle Wolf
Written by Edward Easton, Jordan Gray, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Ben Rowse
Producer: Tashi Radha
Executive Producer: Ben Worsfield
Theme tune composed by Andrew Jones
A Large Time production for BBC Radio 4

Lucy Porter is joined by John Tothill, Kyrah Gray and Amy Annette to talk all things current-ish events. Should politicians wear ties? Should children learn to read? And should we all now identify as Spanish?
Hosted by Lucy Porter
Written by Lucy Porter, Ruth Husko and Katie Sayer, with additional material by Mike Shephard
Producer - Katie Sayer
Assistant producer - Lorna Reader
Executive producer - Victoria Lloyd
A Mighty Bunny production for BBC Radio 4

Comedian Sunil Patel is trying to make a documentary that young people will like. It’s sexy, it’s vice, it’s Hunter S. Thompson, but he’s already completely blowing it. Listen to Sunil embarrass himself on national radio and be forced to change tack immediately.
This is the first episode of this series. To hear more episodes, search "Sunil Patel: An Idiot's Guide To Living Forever" on BBC Sounds.
Starring Sunil Patel
Featuring Helen Bauer
Written by Sunil Patel, Charlie Dinkin, Em Humble and Benjamin Sutton
Produced by Benjamin Sutton and Laura Shaw
A Daddy’s SuperYacht Production for BBC Radio 4

The Dead Ringers team train their vocal firepower on the week’s news. This week: Trump turns tricks, Tuchel talks tactics, and Count Binface is unmasked.
Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey and Kieran Hodgson.
To hear more episodes of Dead Ringers, search "Friday Night Comedy" on BBC Sounds.
Produced by: Jon Holmes
Executive Producer:James Robinson
Production Co-ordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu
A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

Tabitha Beckworth is the founder and CEO of globally successful wellness brand, The Whisper. But, like any super driven hyper successful business person she does many different things, all of them to great success - over 3 million subscribers to her YouTube channel is a testament to this. But for this interview, Tabitha found time in her packed schedule to sit down with Alistair to explain more about what The Whisper is and the global community it has created.
This episode featured on Comedy of the Week is titled Wellness guru Tabitha Beckworth. To hear more from the series, search "The Big Idea with Alistair Green" on BBC Sounds.
Alistair would like to take this moment to put it in writing that he doesn’t necessarily endorse the views of the guests.
The Big Idea with Alistair Green is brought to you by Are You Okay? Mental Health. It’s a lot isn’t it?
Written and performed by Alistair Green.
Produced by Alex Burnard.
A Cup & Nuzzle production for BBC Radio 4.