Podcasts about alexander masters

Frustrated that a promising therapy for a rare cancer was sitting in a freezer due to the lack of a relatively modest amount of funding, author Alexander Masters helped lead a campaign to crowd-fund a clinical trial: the result, iCancer.org.uk. The money required was indeed raised by a wealthy individual primarily, in return for being in the trial. At DPharm Europe, Pfizer's Craig Lipset interviewed on stage Alexander to share his story. We are delighted to present the journey and latest updates on PharmaTalk Radio.  The story of the formation of iCancer.org.uk and the Oncolytic Virus FundAn alternative way to make clinical trials more accessibleEthical and moral issuesA possible disruptive and sustainable model for other neglected medicines The next DPharm: Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials event takes place September 20-21 in Boston. DPharm Europe is scheduled for February 8-9, 2017 in London. For more information about these events or our Immuno-Oncology events, visit, www.theconferenceforum.org. Producer: Valerie Bowling Executive Director, Conference Forum & Pharma Talk Radio Guest Host: Craig Lipset, MBA Head of Clinical Innovation, R&D,Pfizer Guest: Alexander Masters Author, Medical Campaigner and Co-Founder,iCancer.org.uk    

With John Wilson. Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender star in a new film version of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte's much-adapted book. Kathryn Hughes reviews. Alexander Masters, author of the award-winning Stuart: A Life Backwards, explains how he found the subject of his second book living directly below him. The Genius in My Basement focuses on the mathematical genius Simon P Norton, who collects bus timetables and lives on a diet of tinned fish. Damon Albarn recently led a group of British music producers to the Democratic Republic of Congo to make an album with Congolese musicians in Kinshasa. Damon came to Front Row along with two of his musical collaborators in the Congo, producers Kwes and Orlando Higginbottom, aka TEED. Can contemporary art help ease Ireland's economic woes? As the first ever Dublin Contemporary festival is launched, John asks Jimmy Deenihan - Arts and Heritage Minister in the Irish government - what he hopes to get in return for 2 million Euros of taxpayers money invested in the project at a time when the country has just received a massive bailout package. John also talks to veteran Irish conceptual artist Brian O'Doherty who now works in New York, but who is returning to create new work for Dublin Contemporary 2011. Producer: Philippa Ritchie.

Many of the great narrative non-fiction books have been translated from the book to the screen. What makes a good film adaptation and how does a producer identify and adapt a book for the screen? Alexander Masters and Kathryn Hughes have been heavily involved in adapting their biographies, respectively Stuart and The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton for television. Simon Singh won a BAFTA for his documentary on Fermat’s Last Theorem, which he followed up with his book on the same subject. They are joined by Pippa Harris of Neal Street Productions, producer of Stuart.