Bug in the System: The Past, Present and Future of Cancer - Episode 1
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Dr Kat Arney explores cancer through the lens of evolution.
Why do we get cancer? In this episode we find out that far from being a new disease, cancer is embedded deep in almost every branch of the tree of life, from the very earliest organisms through to today, and in most species from aardwolves to zebras. Kat explores how the origins of cancer are inseparable from the history of life itself, with the help of some ancient mummies, cheating amoebas, lazy bees and naked mole rats.
Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Beth Sagar-Fenton Edited by Chris Ledgard
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello and welcome to Seriously.C Radio 4. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Dr. Katani |
| 0:46.0 | and you're about to hear the first episode of my Radio 4 series |
| 0:50.0 | Bug in the System, |
| 0:51.0 | the past, present and future of cancer. |
| 0:54.4 | It's a disease that touches all of us in one way or another |
| 0:58.6 | and as you're about to hear it's been a part of life |
| 1:02.1 | for a very long time. But there's so much |
| 1:05.2 | we're only just starting to learn about cancer. I wanted to find out what the |
| 1:10.0 | most cutting-edge research has to tell us about why cancer is such a deadly enemy |
| 1:15.8 | and how we might finally beat it for good. |
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