The Lifeline Project

Lifeline has been in production for nearly a decade. In that time, much has changed but the core scientific and social message has always stayed the same.

In this episode we talk to Robin Hiley, composer, Becky Hope-Palmer, book writer, and Dr Meghan Perry, scientific advisor who have been three of the people closest to the action making Lifeline what it is today. If you're interested in finding out what it takes to make a musical ...

How do you fit the nearly hundred year history of antimicrobials in agriculture and the environment into one song? Buckle up.

Talking about the antibiotic emergency under the banner of One Health means not only taking in the history of drugs in medicine but also the wild ways they have been used in animals and their effect on the environment. Helping us navigate this huge topic are 'bugs and drugs' historian Dr Claas Kirchhelle and...

Kevin Brown wrote the book on Alexander Fleming. Rob Hiley wrote the musical. Who better to ask about the man behind the mould?

The Lifeline Project is a podcast exploring the science and stories behind the musical, Lifeline, a show about antibiotics, Alexander Fleming, and the biggest current global health crisis you might never have heard of, antimicrobial resistance or AMR.

The podcast is produced, written and hosted by Graham...

One of our biggest supporters over the last few years has been Dame Sally Davies, the former haematologist, civil servant, Chief Medical Officer of the UK and the current master of Trinity College and UK’s Special Envoy on AMR. She’s also a legend.

The Lifeline Project is a podcast exploring the science and stories behind the musical, Lifeline, a show about antibiotics, Alexander Fleming, and the biggest current global health cri...

Ingrid was young and starting her career as a dietician when two years of hospitalisation, injections and recovery which changed her life forever.

In this episode we focus on Tuberculosis, or TB, a disease with a long history in humans which is both curable and preventable but continues to kill 1.2 million people every year. 

Featuring:

Ingrid Schoeman, Director of Advocacy and Strategy for TB Proof, a group started by health care ...

Jess is a doctor, Aaron is a patient, Julian is in a position of power. Together, they are the three friends whose story is at the heart of the show. All of them, in their own ways are antibiotic stewards.

Featuring:

Dr Olayinka Fakorede, Medical Doctor and Masters candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Michael Mosha, Pharmacist and Public Health specialist at Roll Back Antimicrobial Resistance Initiative in Dod...

AMR is a problem with a plethora of solutions...and plenty of barriers to reach them.

In this episode we look at the role innovation can play – innovating new antibiotics, relatively unexplored treatments and preventing infection in the first place. 

Featuring:

Silas Holland, Executive director in infectious disease policy at Merck

Dr Michele Ritter, Infectious Disease Specialist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Universit...

Who killed Mrs X?

Was it her husband, infecting her with a resistant bacterium? Was it the pharmacist, who sold Mr X the antibiotics? Or was it the system that allowed him to get the antibiotics in the first place?

Featuring:

Prof Bob Phillips, Professor of Paediatrics and Evidence Synthesis at at the University of York and an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric / Teenage-Young Adult Oncology at Leeds Children's Hospital. He is also ...

The Lifeline project is a podcast exploring the science and process behind the musical, Lifeline, a show about antibiotics, Alexander Fleming, and the biggest current global health crisis you might never have heard of.

The first episode is a potted history of the show and it's principal cast members - not the actors, the microbes that help make their bodies function. 

Featuring:

Maren Hunsberger - a scientist, science communicator,...