Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share 3. Poppy
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
3. Poppy
The mystery diagnosis that sheds light on pain.
After a routine knee-op, 23-year-old Poppy comes round in excruciating pain. Her leg changes colour, soon she can’t walk, yet her scans show nothing wrong with her knee.
Doctors are baffled and about to discharge her when she’s seen by Dr Deepak Ravindran - one of the UK’s top pain consultants - who solves the mystery.
In Room 5, Helena Merriman shares stories of real-life medical mysteries, interviewing people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Combining intimate storytelling, immersive sound design, candid interviews, science and a large dose of compassion, Room 5 is a gripping portrait of extraordinary people at a moment when everything changes.
Written and presented by Helena Merriman
Produced by Claire Bowes and Helena Merriman
Composer: Jeremy Warmsley
Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore
Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples
Editor: Emma Rippon
#Room5
End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 4
4.7
1616 ratings
The mystery diagnosis that sheds light on pain.
After a routine knee-op, 23-year-old Poppy comes round in excruciating pain. Her leg changes colour, soon she can’t walk, yet her scans show nothing wrong with her knee.
Doctors are baffled and about to discharge her when she’s seen by Dr Deepak Ravindran - one of the UK’s top pain consultants - who solves the mystery.
In Room 5, Helena Merriman shares stories of real-life medical mysteries, interviewing people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Combining intimate storytelling, immersive sound design, candid interviews, science and a large dose of compassion, Room 5 is a gripping portrait of extraordinary people at a moment when everything changes.
Written and presented by Helena Merriman
Produced by Claire Bowes and Helena Merriman
Composer: Jeremy Warmsley
Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore
Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples
Editor: Emma Rippon
#Room5
End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal
More shows like Room 5
View all
The Archers
1,077 Listeners
Woman's Hour
384 Listeners
Desert Island Discs
2,026 Listeners
File on 4 Investigates
40 Listeners
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
1,213 Listeners
Sliced Bread
144 Listeners
The Slow Newscast
160 Listeners
Life Changing
119 Listeners
Therapy Works
51 Listeners
Young Again
48 Listeners
Off Air with Jane & Fi
172 Listeners
Rylan: How to Be...
17 Listeners
Crime Next Door
117 Listeners
Shadow World
38 Listeners
What's Up Docs?
100 Listeners