Broadcasts & Public Engagements
I’m a BBC New Generation Thinker and a frequent guest contributor on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, I also deliver talks and lectures on a range of subjects from narrative medicine, SEN and neuropsychiatry. Scroll down to explore some of my work delving into medical storytelling and the human side of healthcare.
Whether on the air or in person, I’m always looking for new ways to connect with audiences and spark deeper conversations about mind, medicine, and meaning. For media collaborations, speaking engagements, or commissioned writing, contact me.
Life in Colour
The Doctor Podcast, 14 January 2025
Queenie
Bedside Reading Podcast, 19 September 2023
Depicting AIDS in Drama
BBC Radio 3, 23 August 2023
Children of the Waters
BBC Radio 3, 11 April 2023
The Wicked? Stepmother
BBC Radio 3, 16 March 2023
Love from the Pink Palace
The Royal Society of Literature, 5 December 2022
The Island of Missing Trees
Bedside Reading Podcast, 19 November 2022
Mental Health Awareness Week
BBC Radio 3, 10 May 2022
New Generation Thinkers 2022
BBC Radio 3, 31 March 2022
In 2007, while working as a visiting consultant psychiatrist in a remote, predominantly Māori township, Ōpōtiki, I saw a series of large-scale murals painted by local adolescents.
These murals were more than art; they were expressions of identity, self-construction, and negotiation of bicultural relationships between Māori and Pākehā. They framed adolescence as shaped by cultural heritage, post-colonial histories, and racial identity in contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand.
Seeing how these young artists used visual storytelling to express their experiences in ways clinical language could not inspired me to study for an MSc in Medical Humanities at King’s College London.
The Year That Made Me : 2007
ABC Radio National, 28 August 2022
Listen to my reflections on 2007.
Dr Sabina Dosani 