The body’s complex repair system | The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed

02: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors...

01: Pain | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at t...

02: Discovering Vaccines | Medical Mavericks

Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases ...

Discovery of penicillin | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

Fleming initially discovered the antibacterial properties of mould that would lead to the disc...

Defeating the Superbugs | Horizon

Meeting the scientists who are tracking the emergence of 'superbugs' - dangerous bacteria resistant to antibiotics - around the world.

Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry

In an award-winning documentary, Hannah Fry takes a personal look at the issues surrounding how we screen for and treat cancer, asking...

Ultra-Processed Food: A Recipe for Ill Health? | Panorama

Ultra-processed foods contain chemicals that regulators say are safe, but there is emerging evidence of a link betw...

Antibodies and vaccines | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice explains what an antibody is and how they relate to getting vaccinated.

Infested! Living with Parasites

Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory and deliberately infes...

01: Vaccines | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How the development and delivery of the small...

A bacterial infection | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice demonstrates what happens when you get a bacterial infection.

How the immune system fights pathogens | The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed

Spec references J247: B6.3l J250: B6.3i. Researchers study microbes in extreme environ...

The Story of Louis Pasteur vaccinating Joseph Meister against Rabies | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley discusses the Story of Louis Pasteur vaccinating Joseph Meister ag...

Why Is Covid Killing People of Colour?

David Harewood investigates what the high Covid-19 death rates in black and minority ethnic patients reveal about health inequality in...

03: Poison | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Dr Michael Mosley explores how scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as cu...

An introduction to phagocytes | Inside the Human Body

Michael Mosley looks at how white blood cells, called phagocytes, fight bacteria inside our blood.

The Discovery of Penicillin | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

The story of how Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin.

The rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria | Michael Mosley vs The Superbugs

Michael Mosley introduces the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and Superbugs.

White blood cells and the 'war' on infection | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice explains how white blood cells fight infection and where they come from.

01: Anaesthesia | Medical Mavericks

Michael Mosley explores the work of the pioneering doctors who laid the foundations of modern medicine. He begins by charting the develop...