A program on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, 2012 05 15.

[Guest guest]

Greetings,

Note - times given are for the UK.

The BBC Radio 4 website for today shows:

09:00–09:30 The Life Scientific

Frances Ashcroft

Frances Ashcroft on a lifetime spent studying the link between blood sugar

and insulin.

** Program repeated 21:30 **

On the program page it shows:

Jim Al-Khalili talks to this year's winner of the L'Oreal -UNESCO Woman in

Science award, Frances Ashcroft.

After decades spent studying the link between blood sugar and insulin, she

talks about the absolute thrill of discovery as well as the long lean years

" in a cloud of not knowing " . It's very rare indeed for a scientist to see

any medical benefit from their research but Frances Ashcroft has been lucky.

Her scientific understanding of a key biochemical mechanism in our

pancreatic cells has helped transform the lives of hundreds of children who

are born with diabetes, enabling them to come off insulin injections and

instead take a daily pill.

Producer: Buckley

And yet, thirty years on, it's still not clear precisely what goes wrong

with the mechanism in the much more common Type II diabetes, now affecting

hundreds of millions.

Broadcasts

Tue 15 May 2012 09:00 BBC Radio 4.

Tue 15 May 2012 21:30 BBC Radio 4.

It should be possible to listen after a few hours, I do not think it is

available as a podcast.

The listen link is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hjqhr

Colin , living near Southampton in Southern

England.