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Frank Rowntree, Sheffield's Health Education Officer, discusses the care that should be taken when picking and eating wild fruits, particularly wayside fruits.

Frank Rowntree recordings. Reel 68.

The European parliament is considering applications by European technology companies to patent inventions derived from genetic material. MPs are trying to make safeguards. Tom Wilkie gives his ethical and practical reasons for not allowing patents. Wellcome puts its new research findings on the internet every night to make sure its genetic knowledge becomes public property.

Europe today : patenting genetic material.

Second in a three-part series in which NHS workers tell about the most unforgettable moments of their working careers. This part features the story of theatre technician Stephen Wheel's role in ending a patients life following organ donation. It also features the story of Dierdre Cunningham, a transplant co-ordinator who tells how a kidney transplant patient's kidney was re-transplanted following his death, a first in UK medicine.

Stories from the wards. Part 2.

This recording is of interviews with former colleagues and pupils of pioneering cardiologist, Sir Thomas Lewis. The interviews were conducted by Dr. Arthur Hollman in preparation for his biography on Lewis: 'Sir Thomas Lewis: pioneer cardiologist and clinical scientist', London; New York: Springer, c1996. Mr. Reginald Charles Channel is interviewed 22 November 1977. He speaks in depth about the early days of electrocardiography and describes in detail how the earliest machines worked. Sir Edward Wayne interviewed 11 April 1978, worked at UCH Department of Clinical Research, 1931-4. He speaks very eloquently about his time with Lewis and about Lewis' career and other colleagues.

Dr. Arthur Hollman interviews Mr. Reginald Charles Channel and Sir Edward Wayne.

In February 1997, "Dolly the Sheep", made news headlines. In this programme Dr Ian Wilmut, Dolly's creator talks to the BBC's Science Correspondent, describing a hypothetical situation when it might be possible to develop human organs outside the body to replace the organs inside. Looking on the positive side, the technique can help infertile couples to have children. But some geneticists fear that cloning could be used to produce genetically engineered babies.

Human cloning.

Radio documentary, presented by Dr. Sally Marlow, looking at how over-the-counter medicines containing codeine are leading to hidden addiction problems. Throughout the programme she also talks to various people who have had painkiller addiction. As an addictions researcher she asks whether the business of GPs, and the speed of being able to ask for something at a chemist, is creating a growing dependency crisis. Marlow speaks to Dr. Oscar D'Agnone, psychiatrist and clinical director of CRI, a social care and health charity dealing with substance misuse, about the data on painkiller addiction and deaths. She also speaks to toxicologist, Dr. John Ramsay, about the range of medications available over the counter. They consider different types of painkillers and talk about codeine as an opiate and how it metabolises in the body. Marlow talks to Cathy Stannard, a consultant in pain medicine at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, an expert in opioid drugs, about types of pain and the different drug treatments. The continuing drivers for the use of certain medications are considered as well as long-term use that may not be motivated by pain, including addiction. Fabrizio Schifano, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Hertfordshire, talks about the misuse of drugs. David Grieve, who set up the charity Overcount after becoming addicted to cough medicine, talks about the problems people have. Dr. Paolo Deluca, from King's College London, is leading the British arm of a European study looking into codeine misuse, called CODEMISUSED. He discusses how sources of data on codeine misuse are scarce but are gradually being triangulated under this study. Marlow talks to various contributors about the problems of safety when buying codeine on the Internet and the dark net. She considers the trend towards self-care that is being encouraged by the pharmaceutical industry and how more drugs are being taken off prescription. This leads to pharmacists playing a more vital role in our healthcare. Neil Patel, Head of Corporate Communications at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, discusses whether the public are currently protected against the risks of strong painkillers. Drug misuse services and lack of take-up of these services is mentioned along with problems associated with drug treatment programmes.

Painful medicine

As the first bid to patent gene fragments is made in the United States, by Craig Venture, this short item discusses the implications. Mike Dexter, of the Wellcome Trust and Simon Cohen, a solicitor specialising in Patent Law, explain their opposition and how challenges are being prepared.

Patents.

Andrew Dilnot examines the world of intellectual property rights and asks how we balance fairness with incentive and reward for creativity in both science research and the arts. Scientists like Newton, Einstein and Fleming shared their discoveries with the world, but in the USA patents puts an economic value on knowledge. Pharmaceutical companies supplying AIDS drugs to Africa have to recoup research costs. Elizabeth Harding discusses the internet and copyright law, e.g. for the music industry. Some knowledge, such as that on essential crops, cannot be patented. There is discussion of the genome project - public or private?

A penny for your thoughts.

Radio documentary presented by Lisa Jardine who traces the evolution of scientific endeavour in Britain over the last four centuries. In this episode she explores the age of opportunity that came with the new industrial revolution and how it influenced science. In Stoke-on-Trent, Lisa Jardine investigates the science of ceramics and talks briefly about Josiah Wedgwood's career and pottery. Author and biographer, Jenny Uglow, discusses various social changes during this period. Gay Blake Edwards, from the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent, mentions the colours on Wedgwood's porcelain, the various chemicals used and the meticulous notes he made. M.P. for Stoke-on-Trent Central and historian, Tristram Hunt, discusses this further. Historian of science, David Knight, discusses how quality control became prevalent and how, with rigorous testing, new items were produced with instructions written down to provide manufacturing standards which led to mass production. This new information began to have a commercial value. Wedgwood guarded his secrets and patented each process. He was one of the founders of the Lunar Society of Birmingham which met to discuss the latest scientific discoveries. Jenny Uglow talks about the Lunar Society, including one of its key members, James Keir, a doctor who worked as a chemist and was famous for translating a key French chemistry dictionary, and for large scale soap production. James Watt was also interested in mass production and Ben Russell talks about Watt's workshop which is now located in the Science Museum in London. Jenny Uglow mentions Matthew Boulton, another member of the Lunar Society. In the next generation, Humphry Davy took up some of the aims of the Society, and became famous for work he did with gases. He also experimented with nitrous oxide, and this is talked about by biographer and historian, Richard Holmes, including some of the links between Davy and romantic poets of the time. Davy was offered a job at the new Royal Institution which was committed to bringing science to a wider audience. He gave many celebrated performances of science in the Institution's lecture theatre, which women could also attend. He used the latest French technology including a voltaic battery to extract new elements and his experiments were seen as fun and popular. The social impact of this opened up further opportunities for scientific development with science being seen as both profitable and as a recognisable profession.

The seven ages of science. 3/7 Age of opportunity.

A ten minute item on the issue of medical research publication. Organizations such as the BMJ, and COPE are calling for all medical research findings to be published. At the moment, only two drugs companies, Glaxo Wellcome and Schering, publish their research, but only when drugs are at the licence stage. When the trials fail, the results are not published. At present, the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) the only body that oversees all medical research, but this information is not published. The programme examines the controversies which surround this subject.

Medical research and publication.

Dr. Raj Persaud on Schizophrenia. The programme includes accounts from sufferers, their families and those who treat them. [More detailed synopsis available from MFAC].

Schizophrenia.

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Sukeshi Thakkar: interview 5

A programme discussing the clinical side effects of new anti-depressant drug, R.I.M.A.

Depression : audio update; focus on R.I.M.A.

Produced as a marketing tool for the Beta blockers Eraldin and Inderal, this record supplies a commentary based on the film "Understanding the Beta blockers - their importance in general practice". Side 1 includes sympathetic simulation; effect on the heart; catecholamines; beta receptors; beta blockers; effects of blockade. Side 2 includes unwanted effects of beta blockers; 'Inderal' and Eraldin' in angina pectoris, hypertension, cardiac neurosis, cardiac arrhythmias; summary.

Understanding the Beta blockers - their importance in general practice.

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Sarah Gaitley: interview 4

The programme looks at the genome project and includes interviews with key players in genetic research.

The genome project.

A general coverage of the issues which the Wembley Concert, in support of AIDS awareness, have raised. The controversy over whether or not the HIV virus is the only cause of AIDS, and interviews with some of the performers who will be taking part in the concert.

AIDS : World AIDS Day,1993.

This recording is from a series of 2400, which were captured by the Wellcome Trust prior to the participants ascending to the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Central London, between 6th July and 14th October 2009. Antony Gormley's live artwork was commissioned by the Mayor of London. A group of 20 'plinthers' were then selected by Random House, the publishers of the One & Other book, for follow-up interviews a year later. These interviews have been licensed to the Wellcome Trust as part of the One & Other oral history archive created at the time of the project

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One & other. Stephen Roser post-plinth interview.

The programme examines differing approaches to health care in other countries. Dr Gerard Mushemi, Head of Animal Resources at the Institute of Primate Research (IPR), outside Nairobi, Kenya, talks about the use of animals in laboratory research. He questions the use of animals in research, when the sole purpose is the welfare of human life. The IPR is carrying out a trial of an experimental contraceptive vaccine on female baboons. Dr Luddle (?), talks about the new maternity conditions for mothers in labour at the Leh Hospital in Ladakh. She highlighs some of the issues around the use of contraception by the local women, and how traditional ways of life have led to new social problems. Dr Zerring (?), who is a representative of the Tibetan Government in exile, talks about the problems posed by the enforced use of contraception by China on the population of Tibet.

We do it differently here : healing for the community.

Forty five years after the Peckham Centre was closed, Southwark Local Authority has decided to reopen the building and regenerate the leasure centre. The old centre had four aspects in those days, users participation, inter-generation mix, family life and health checks to prevent illness. The programme also discusses the Halisham in Sussex. The ideals of the Peckham Centre are still relevant, and Southwark Council is expected to reopen the centre in 1997-8.

The Power of Peckham. Part 2.

This is the first in a series of three programmes which trace the image of the scientist, as portrayed in cinema. The màd scientist', working alone on crazy experiments has been an enduring cinematic image, from Fritz Lang's Mètropolis', to Eddy Murphy's crazy professor in T̀he Nutty Professor'. Includes clips from various films.

Celluloid scientists, part 1. The mad scientist.

James Naughtie speaks to Ken Arnold and artist Humphrey Ocean about their involvement with the Wellcome Trust funded project to find out why different artists paint in their own particular ways.

Analysing artists.

Second in a four-part series in which Graham Easton compares human and veterinary medicine. In this episode he looks at the different working days of doctors and vets.

Man and beast. Part 2.

Peter Evans looks at how we attempt to read and understand the behaviour of others. New research, using MRI brain scans, into how we have the ability to predict and be sensitive to the desires of others is showing that this begins in very early infancy. This new research might also lead to some practical advances in the ways in which we treat psychiatric disorders in which the ability to predict others behaviour can go awry.

Predicting behaviour.

This documentary combines moving stories of people suffering from memory loss, Alzeimer's disease, depression, alcoholism, and stroke; with news about pioneering research on these brain disorders and diseases. Narrated by Academy Award winner Patricia Neal.

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Frank Rowntree recordings. Reel 68.

Europe today : patenting genetic material.

Stories from the wards. Part 2.

Dr. Arthur Hollman interviews Mr. Reginald Charles Channel and Sir Edward Wayne.

Human cloning.

Painful medicine

Patents.

A penny for your thoughts.

The seven ages of science. 3/7 Age of opportunity.

Medical research and publication.

Schizophrenia.

Sukeshi Thakkar: interview 5

Depression : audio update; focus on R.I.M.A.

Understanding the Beta blockers - their importance in general practice.

Sarah Gaitley: interview 4

The genome project.

AIDS : World AIDS Day,1993.

One & other. Stephen Roser post-plinth interview.

We do it differently here : healing for the community.

The Power of Peckham. Part 2.

Celluloid scientists, part 1. The mad scientist.

Analysing artists.

Man and beast. Part 2.

Predicting behaviour.

Gray matters : aging and the brain.

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Frank Rowntree recordings. Reel 68.

Europe today : patenting genetic material.

Stories from the wards. Part 2.

Dr. Arthur Hollman interviews Mr. Reginald Charles Channel and Sir Edward Wayne.

Human cloning.

Painful medicine

Patents.

A penny for your thoughts.

The seven ages of science. 3/7 Age of opportunity.

Medical research and publication.

Schizophrenia.

Sukeshi Thakkar: interview 5

Depression : audio update; focus on R.I.M.A.

Understanding the Beta blockers - their importance in general practice.

Sarah Gaitley: interview 4

The genome project.

AIDS : World AIDS Day,1993.

One & other. Stephen Roser post-plinth interview.

We do it differently here : healing for the community.

The Power of Peckham. Part 2.

Celluloid scientists, part 1. The mad scientist.

Analysing artists.

Man and beast. Part 2.

Predicting behaviour.

Gray matters : aging and the brain.

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