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19:  The World Encephalitis Day Edition with Jan Ravens

19:  The World Encephalitis Day Edition with Jan Ravens

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Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain. The majority of cases are caused by either a viral infection or the patients' own immune system attacking their own brain tissue. Actress and impressionist Jan Ravens joins Professor Tom Solomon, who is the President of the Encephalitis Society, to raise public awareness about this devastating disease, sharing her own harrowing experience of the onset, and aftermath of herpes simplex encephalitis in her husband Max. The first female producer in the 'old boy network' culture of BBC TV's Light Entertainment department in the 1980s and elected the first female President of the famous Cambridge Footlights Comedy Club, Jan is best known for her impressionist work with Spitting Image and Dead Ringers. In this episode Jan also discusses her new comedy project about her personal explorations into the world of internet dating.

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