PostHole
Compose
Login
Bodies
The London Anatomy Office accepts around 350 human bodies donated for medical research and education annually. You may imagine that these bodies are presevered in chemicals for medical students to study over weeks and months. And some are. But many are used - almost fresh - to train surgeons in the procedures which may one day save your life.Journalist Jenny Kleeman gains rare access to a surgical training course at Brighton and Sussex Medical School which uses these "fresh" donor bodies. She talks to the people who work with them every day and the surgeons who have come to be trained to find out how they feel about the people who have given the ultimate gift and if we still need real human cadavers in medical education.Presenter: Jenny Kleeman
Producer: Ella Hubber
Accessibility links
BBC World Service
Discovery
- Discovery Home
- Episodes
- Galleries
- Podcast
- Join us on Facebook
Main content
Listen now
Bodies
Discovery
Jenny Kleeman is granted a rare window into what happens to the bodies donated for medical education and used for surgical training.
The London Anatomy Office accepts around 350 human bodies donated for medical research and education annually. You may imagine that these bodies are presevered in chemicals for medical students to study over weeks and months. And some are. But many are used - almost fresh - to train surgeons in the procedures which may one day save your life.
Journalist Jenny Kleeman gains rare access to a surgical training course at Brighton and Sussex Medical School which uses these "fresh" donor bodies. She talks to the people who work with them every day and the surgeons who have come to be trained to find out how they feel about the people who have given the ultimate gift and if we still need real human cadavers in medical education.
Presenter: Jenny Kleeman
Producer: Ella Hubber
###
####
Higher quality (128kbps)
Lower quality (64kbps)
Available now
26 minutes
Last on
Mon 24 Nov 2025
01:32GMT
BBC World Service
More episodes
Previous
The Life Scientific: Kevin Fong
Next
See all episodes from Discovery
Featured
####
Broadcasts
Mon 17 Nov 2025
20:32GMT
BBC World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & Europe and the Middle East only
Mon 17 Nov 2025
21:32GMT
BBC World Service except Online, Americas and the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East & UK DAB/Freeview
Tue 18 Nov 2025
05:32GMT
BBC World Service Australasia, Americas and the Caribbean, South Asia & East Asia only
Space
The eclipses, spacecraft and astronauts changing our view of the Universe
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
[The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry]
A pair of scientific sleuths answer your perplexing questions. Ask them anything!
Podcast
Discovery
Explorations in the world of science.
Related Links
Multilingualism protecting against accelerated ageing (www.nature.com)
Similar programmes
By genre:
- Factual > Science & Nature
By format:
Magazines & Reviews
[BBC World Service homepage]
News in more than 40 languages