Helena Burke
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669 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Helena Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's entertaining.
And that's what people crave these days.
And it's funny, when I interviewed her, I did ask her, look, you've been doing Chicken Shop Date for so long.
Would you want to take this to potentially a sort of traditional TV couch format where you can ask these questions in a more, you know, a linear way?
And she wasn't very keen on it, to be honest.
She sort of said, I think what I've got going here is essentially a sort of late night chat show.
And she could obviously see that that seems to work for her and the power in a way rests with social media and these platforms like YouTube.
I think what it says about YouTube and the growth of YouTube, we say it again and again, we talk about it, but especially for younger generations, this is what they're watching rather than traditional media.
I think it also shows that sort of independent digital creators can give traditional broadcasters a run for their money and more.
You know, they can become where the power is.
She was very much a pioneer in that.
When 66-year-old Tim Andrews was diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease, his prognosis looked grim.
In the US, around 100,000 people are currently waiting for a kidney, while only 25,000 transplants occur each year.
And it's a similar story in many other countries.
To combat the problem, Dr Leonarda Riella from Mass General Brigham Hospital in Boston has been researching xenotransplantation, the process of using animal organs in humans.
Pigs are seen as the ideal donor as their organs are roughly the same size as humans.
In an attempt to save his life, Dr Riella offered Tim the pioneering procedure.
Tim received a kidney from a genetically modified Yucatan miniature pig in January 2025.
This is not the first time a pig kidney transplant has occurred, but the procedure marks the longest dialysis-free survival following a pig kidney transplant, with Tim living with the organ for nine months.
It wasn't a simple process, though.
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