A journey on weight-loss drug Ozempic

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The company behind the weight-loss drug has made millions, but without health insurance it is unaffordable for many. George Chidi reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:09.0	Today, how a weight loss wonder drug is changing one man's life. Attention, comrades. This spring, the world feels different now. A dystopian masterpiece.
0:27.0	This is Big Brother.
0:29.0	Becomes a reality. Time to finally do this.
0:32.0	Winston, let'm scared.
0:33.0	George Orwell's 1984,
0:36.0	starring Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Arrivo,
0:40.0	Andrew Scott and Tom Hardy.
0:42.0	No, wait.
0:42.7	This is it.
0:43.7	It's over already.
0:44.7	Listen now only on audible.
0:46.2	Subscription required.
0:47.8	See audible.co. UK for terms. When I go on holiday one of the main things I look forward to is the food.
1:03.4	For the journalist George Chidi, it's cheese.
1:06.8	He can't get enough of it.
1:08.4	Like in another life, I'd be a cheesemonger.
1:10.6	I need to tell you that.
1:12.1	Like, I would be a monger of cheese and be happy.
1:16.0	And he's just come back from a holiday where there was more cheddar than he could dream of.
1:23.0	So I actually had a lot of apprehension about visiting London and then Paris,
1:29.0	because food. I mean, I'm on vacation.
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