Podcast Episodes featuring Henry Marsh

Dr. Henry Marsh on what it's like to be a brain surgeon. (10/10/18)

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York - October 10, 2018 18:58 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 153 ratings
“Henry Marsh is in the business of admitting his mistakes. It’s right there in the title of his second memoir — ‘Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon’ — and it was the central theme of his first, ‘Do No Harm,’ published in his native England to wide acclaim, in 2014, and then here a year later. On...

Henry Marsh

Desert Island Discs - September 23, 2018 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Henry Marsh is a neurosurgeon, who pioneered a technique of operating on the brain while the patient is under local anaesthetic. The procedure is now standard practice. He is also an acclaimed writer. He was born in 1950 in Oxford, where his father was an academic. His mother came to England a...

Henry Marsh: What Makes Us Human?

What Makes Us Human - May 02, 2018 14:44 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
The neurosurgeon joins us to answer the question.

Marc meets Henry Marsh | Kidspiration.tv

Kidspiration.tv - August 09, 2016 14:55 - 4 minutes - Video
Would you be brave enough to cut into someone’s head and work on their brain? Henry Marsh is a courageous doctor and skillful surgeon who has saved thousands of lives by doing this very difficult work. For years, he has taken out people’s brain tumors and fixed life-threatening problems. He was ...

BLOOD - Henry Marsh

Medicine Unboxed - February 17, 2016 06:46 - 40 minutes
Medicine Unboxed 2015 MORTALITY looked at life and death and the lines that separate them. We will marvel at how molecules are arranged into life and examine other beginnings and endings, of the universe and how all nature folds and unfolds in time. We will wonder about time. We will hear the so...

MORTALITY - Henry Marsh - BLOOD

Medicine Unboxed - November 28, 2015 00:00 - 40 minutes
Henry Marsh is am English neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine. His widely acclaimed memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery was published in 2014.

Henry Marsh

Private Passions - July 12, 2015 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings
Henry Marsh is one of the country's leading neurosurgeons: as a senior consultant at St George's University Hospital in South London, he has pioneered brain surgery for more than 30 years. These are delicate, microscopic operations to deal with tumours and aneurisms where the least slip can be...

Henry Marsh - Do No Harm

Bookclub - June 07, 2015 15:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 208 ratings
With James Naughtie. Doctors work under the oath 'do no harm', but the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh says the decision whether to operate on a brain is rarely that simple. His account of his working life Do No Harm has caught the attention of readers all round the country since its publication a ye...