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23/08/2014 GMT

Blood

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The life-giving fluid in science and in our culture

Blood,  in sickness and in health. With writer Lawrence Hill, forensic pathologist Gillian Leak and blood scientist Kikkeri Naresh.

What do you see in a phial of blood? A life sustaining fluid teeming with millions of cells? Evidence to solve a terrible crime? Samira Ahmed explores blood in medicine, at crime scenes, and in our bodies and minds, with the help of Canadian writer Lawrence Hill who’s written a biography of the red stuff, Dr Gillian Leak, a forensic expert in crime scene blood pattern analysis, and Professor Kikkeri Naresh seeking to unlock the mysteries of blood cancer.

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