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January 2023

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…

Jan 26, 2023 •

Mark Honigsbaum

57:48

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…

Jan 19, 2023 •

Mark Honigsbaum

1:07:41

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.

Jan 11, 2023 •

Mark Honigsbaum

47:38

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”.

Jan 8, 2023 •

Mark Honigsbaum

58:21

December 2022

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…

Dec 5, 2022 •

Mark Honigsbaum

58:25

June 2022

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…

Jun 10, 2022 •

Mark Honigsbaum

48:02

March 2022

Bearing Witness with Dr. Rachel Clarke

One of the most important functions of journalism is to bear witness to historic events.

Mar 17, 2022 •

Mark Honigsbaum

38:40

June 2021

Commemorating Covid

Pandemics don’t tend to register in collective memory and there are almost no memorials to the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, but Covid-19 looks set to…

Jun 7, 2021 •

Mark Honigsbaum

35:48

May 2021

Reporting the Pandemic

In this special episode, supported by the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, Mark speaks to three UK-based health and science…

May 10, 2021 •

Mark Honigsbaum

49:15

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