Wednesday, February 15, 2006

BBC Radio 4 Start the Week with Andrew Marr January 16 2006

Voice of the Listener and Viewer have voted Start the Week Best Radio Programme in their 2005 Awards. Start the Week also won in 1994 and is only the second programme to win the award twice.Andrew Marr has also won the Best Contributor To Radio Award.

JACKY LAW was one of the guests on 16 January 2006, together with actor, director, producer and writer for radio and television, ARMANDO IANNUCCI, former Secretary of State for Education ESTELLE MORRIS, and authorMICHAEL MOORCOCK.

Her book, Big Pharma, looks into the big business of the pharmaceutical industry and how this influences what we get prescribed. Medicines contribute hugely to the health of the nation, and most of us would take the pills if our doctor prescribed them, but what is the background behind these medicines? Who says they are safe? Who sets the price? And who decides the development of new drugs, and for what illnesses?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek_20060116.shtml

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