Scrotal recall

23/10/2014 13 min
Scrotal recall

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Episode Synopsis

Nicola Low, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland, talks to Tom Edge, writer of the Channel 4 sitcom Scrotal Recall, a drama where a young man explores his past relationships via contact tracing after discovering he has chlamydia.

Tom discusses the medicine and research behind the writing, and the tensions between storytelling and science.