Podcasts by Anthony Costello
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Lesley Regan on women in leadership, reproductive rights and safer childbirth from 2019-07-07T16:02:15
A podcast interview with Professor Lesley Regan, President of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In this podcast I chat with Lesley about what brought her into medicine and...
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Food systems: a conversation with David Nabarro from 2019-04-05T16:10:19
I worked first with David Nabarro in Nepal in 1984. He is brilliant, inspiring, political and innovative. Working with him is an experience. You get used to meetings at all hours of the day, lots o...
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Reasons to be Cheerful: My Podcast with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd from 2018-12-23T14:05:11
In which I joined Ed and Geoff, along with Julia Unwin and Dr Agnelo Fernandes, to chat about humanity, kindness and sympathy groups in public services.
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On Cannabis, and Health Systems for Women and Children with Rajani Ved and Tanya Doherty from 2018-11-14T13:54:34
I review the latest brain research on cannabis, and then interview two guests, Dr Rajani Ved from India and Professor Tanya Doherty, S Africa, about how we can improve health systems for women's an...
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Future Directions for Child Health Part 1. Mike Merson and Theresa Diaz from 2018-10-05T15:27:14
Anthony Costello gives his regular news update. This week he discusses Yemen conflict; Spain's donation to UNRWA; Leptospirosis in India, UK child poverty; the WHO Global Exercise Report. He then ...
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How to be a social activist for health: an interview with David Sanders from 2018-07-25T07:47:36
David Sanders, an internationally renowned paediatrician and public health researcher, has spent fifty years involved in struggles for health in Zimbabwe, the UK and South Africa. He has always bee...
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The Impossible Task of Feeding Children Well with Predatory Food Companies: How a Nutritionist and Human Rights Lawyer would Tackle it. from 2018-06-19T20:44:39
We face a double burden of malnutrition. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry. And obesity rates rise remorselessly. In many parts of the world our children are fatter, less active and less l...
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What you should know about politics, development and health in India today, with Patralekha Chatterjee from 2018-05-25T14:58:23
My conversation with Patralekha Chatterjee, international journalist and author, about politics, health, diet, the environment, caste, cultural diversity and the status of women in India. Also a ro...
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Podcast 004“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”Emily Dickinson from 2018-05-04T09:42:53
Conversations with WHO Director of Ageing John Beard and Scarlet McNally, orthopaedic surgeon, on healthy ageing, integrated care for older people, and how to keep people active and engaged.
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Podcast 003: The best and the brightest: Yale women graduates on climate, feminism and the future from 2018-04-27T18:46:44
Yale women graduate students discuss their attitudes to climate change, emerging student activism, nationalism, feminism, gun control, drug use, the feckless baby boomer generation, and reasons to ...
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