Infection and Response

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...

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...

02: Medical Drugs | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How knowledge gained from the discovery ...

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...

Antibiotics | The Truth About...

Documentary in which Angela Rippon looks into the new ways that scientists are trying to fight bacterial infections, as they try to combat a...

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...

Antibiotic Resistance | The Truth About...

Angela Rippon gives a brief introduction to the antibiotic resistance crisis.

The Development of Anti-Retroviral Drugs to Treat HIV | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

The story of how Professor David Ho worked in a team to develop the firs...

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

The story of how Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin.

The testing of penicillin on mice | Mutant Mouse

How and why penicillin was tested on mice to discover its uses.

Viruses and vaccines | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

The discovery of vaccines has helped scientists to tackle a variety of viruses.

Pain message | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine

Painkillers act at different points along the pain pathways to turn the pain response down.

Robert Koch & cholera | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley discusses Robert Koch's cultivation of cholera bacteria.

John Hunter conducts the first study of disease in a controlled experiment | Medical Mavericks

John Hunter conducted the first study of disease in a controlled experiment, w...

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...

Mutant Mouse

Documentary looking at the history of the laboratory mouse and its role in some of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 20th century, from the develo...

Your Medicine Cabinet | The Truth About...

Dr Chris Van Tulleken calls on the British public to seek out the truth about the top-selling over-the-counter medicines.

03: Data | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. Before a vaccine or an effective treatment can co...

Which antibiotic is best to use? | The Truth About...

Angela explains which types of antibiotics we use for different things. She also finds out about a method being trialed...

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...

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...

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...

HIV | The Truth About...

Dr Chris van Tulleken explores the latest science around HIV, meeting health professionals, scientists, and individuals affected by it in the UK and...

Malaria: Return to Fever Road

Documentary which reveals the harsh realities of malaria within a rural Kenyan village community, highlighting man's endless fight against a di...

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...

03: Diet and Disease | Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley explores the lengths to which pioneering doctors have gone to uncover the connections between what we eat and what...

Defeating the Superbugs | Horizon

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

The role of T cells and antibodies when fighting an infection | Inside the Human Body

Using state-of-the-art graphics, Michael Mosley explains what happens when a virus ente...

An introduction to phagocytes | Inside the Human Body

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

S04E04: London | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis heads to London to discover how Isambard Kingdom Brunel tunnelled under the Thames and to find out more about the inventor of t...

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...

Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them

Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Michael Mosley examine how viruses effect the human body and how they spread, as well as examing how to st...

How babies gain intestinal bacteria through their mothers milk | The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed

Why does a human mother's milk contain complex oligosaccharide...

Disease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic

Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates a mysterious virus that could cause the next pandemic, one scientists think will be deadlier than Cov...

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...

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.

Edward Jenner's First Vaccination | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

The story of Edward Jenner's discovery that deliberately infecting someone with cowpox could...

How do vaccines protect the population? | Horizon

Hannah Fry demonstrates how vaccines help to protect human populations and provide protection to those that cannot receive ...

02: Discovering Vaccines | Medical Mavericks

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

The immune system and white blood cells | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice describes how the immune system works and what white blood cells do when we're ill.

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

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

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

Alice demonstrates what happens when you get a bacterial infection.

04: Beating Infection | Medical Mavericks

Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions suc...

How a virus works | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice demonstrates (with donuts) how a virus works differently to bacteria.

Ring Vaccination and the Eradication of Smallpox | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

In the late 1960s, William Foege was running out of smallpox vaccine in Niger...

Boosting Your Immune System | The Truth About...

Dr Ronx Ikharia presents the definitive guide, not only to defending yourself against Covid-19, but also boosting your stren...

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...

S02E06: The Immune System | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Dr Alice Roberts endures a terrifying test to see how well her immune system works and swab analysis at a stude...

T Cells | Made of Stronger Stuff

Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey through the body's immune system and profile a remarkable white blood ...

Testing for allergies | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice does a 'scratch test' to see what she is allergic to and what having an allergy actually means.

Lymph nodes | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice explains how the lymph nodes use white blood cells to help the body fight infection and disease.

How the COVID-19 Vaccine Works | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, part of the team that developed one of the COVID-19 vaccinations, explain...

Variolation; the fore-runner to vaccination | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer

Around 1700, an enslaved man who was trafficked to Boston brought with him the kno...