Going Viral - The Podcast
1) Who Do We Not Save?
As the UK’s independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. Today, in the second part of our tw...Show More
2) The Dancing Queen
As the UK’s independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. Today, Mark speaks to the parents ...Show More
3) NEW 2 Part Special Coming Soon...
As the UK’s independent public inquiry into Covid-19 gets underway, members of the Covid bereaved complain that they are not being given an opportunity to testify. In a new two part special, Mark sp...Show More
4) What Would An Ethical Pandemic Look Like?
As sure as night follows day, we will face another pandemic, so how can we learn from the mistakes made during Covid-19, to ensure our response next time is not only more effective, but also more ethi...Show More
5) How Many Deaths Are Too Many?
From the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the British Government made it clear that a baseline level of mortality from Covid was being “priced in” to its decision making: on March 12th 2020, Boris Joh...Show More
6) Covid Inequalities with Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Professor Sir Michael Marmot has been researching health inequalities and their relationship to social injustice for more than 50 years. He has long been a vocal critic of how health inequalities unde...Show More
7) All In It Together: Were Unequal Outcomes Inevitable during Covid-19?
When Covid-19 first struck the UK, the disease was described as “a great leveller”. But it soon became clear that Covid's impacts were not evenly distributed - we may have been in the same storm, but ...Show More
8) Who Do We Trust in a Pandemic?
The coronavirus pandemic raised significant questions about public trust: trust in science, trust in politicians and trust in the public health messaging. Today Mark and his guests Anjana Ahuja; Sarah...Show More
9) Collecting Covid
Mark visits the Science Museum in London to look at their Collecting Covid-19 objects and talk to Natasha McEnroe, the museum’s Keeper of Medicine, about their curatorial choices. The collection curre...Show More
10) Bearing Witness with Dr. Rachel Clarke
One of the most important functions of journalism is to bear witness to historic events. But in the case of the coronavirus pandemic, some of the most unflinching witnesses to the crisis that engulfed...Show More