"Claudia Hammond has one of the finest radio voices. It's crisp, clear and entirely engaging,
even when she's reading, and yet just as importantly it doesn't hog the limelight.
Quite simply, you listen to what she says rather than how she says it."
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, January 2009

 what's on now

Mind Changers, Radio 4 - Feb 2011

In the 5th series of Mind Changers Claudia examines three more classic psychology experiments and how they have changed the way we think today.

"A fascinating programme"
(Miranda Sawyer, Observer on Mind Changers
Series 3, Radio 4, 2007)
 

Health Check, BBC World Service

Listen every Monday to Health Check on the BBC's World Service.

On at 10.30am, repeated at 3.30pm, 8.30pm and 1.30am in the UK. To listen via the website, to download a podcast or to check the schedule for Health Check in countries outside the UK, click the 'tune in' button.

 
Claudia interviews Runa Khan at a floating
hospital in Bangladesh

Listen out for

All in the Mind — next series coming up in spring 2011

While you are waiting for the new series, why not listen back to previous programmes as Claudia asks unpicks the statistics to discover whether 1 in 4 people really has a mental health problem and meets the adopted teenagers tracing their relatives online. 

Case Study — listen again to series 2 from August 2010

You can also listen back to series 1 including the story of Phineas Gage, a 19th century railway worker in Vermont who survived a metre-long iron rod shot through his head and changed the study of neuroscience forever.

Listen back to previous programmes

State of Mind, Radio 4

Listen to Claudia Hammond chart the development of mental health care in the UK from the 1950s until today, to ask where we are now, and where we're going. Will the stigma of mental illness ever be entirely removed.

Health Check special on the decriminalisation
of drugs in Portugal

June 2009

Read Claudia's feature for the BBC's From our own Correspondent and listen again below.

Claudia reports on one woman living with TB in South Africa for From Our Own Correspondent

Health Check special on HIV and TB in South Africa March 2009 Read Claudia's feature for Radio 4's From Our own Correspondent on children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

To view Claudia's back catalogue of radio reporting and presenting from when she started out as a broadcast journalist with BBC Radio Five Live click here.