Dame Emma Walmsley Guest Edits Today
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BBC
4.0 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The last of our Christmas guest editors is the CEO of the global biopharma company GSK, Dame Emma Walmsley.
She wanted her programme to look to the year ahead with optimism. In these highlights from her programme hear Dame Emma in conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who urges politicians not to treat their opponents as enemies but as fellow human beings.
Dame Emma also speaks to the Health Minister for Singapore; visits Kew Gardens and she asks former guest editor and Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse to discuss with a group of students, the scientific and technological advances they are most excited for in 2024.
Simon Jack interviews Dame Emma to end her programme and she chooses a special piece of music.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Our final guest editor of the series is Dame Emma Wormsley, |
| 0:08.8 | CEO of the pharmaceutical giant GSK. |
| 0:11.7 | She wants her program to look to the year ahead with optimism. |
| 0:15.8 | There's a hopeful message in her wide-ranging interview |
| 0:18.4 | with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. |
| 0:21.6 | We go into this new year with all that's going on around the world. |
| 0:26.4 | We've seen wars and stuff breaking out. |
| 0:28.8 | But for me, at the heart of what I believe is that God is in control. |
| 0:33.3 | If you interview an Archbishop, I'm afraid you're going to get a bit of God. |
| 0:36.2 | It goes with the job. |
| 0:37.3 | And that I'm never optimistic, but I'm always hopeful. |
| 0:42.3 | And we'll explore his plea for us to learn how to discuss controversial issues in a kind of way. |
| 0:49.0 | Dame Emma also wants us to focus on how we can become a healthier nation. |
| 0:53.4 | We'll see if there are lessons from other health systems like the one in Singapore on preventative medicine. |
| 0:59.5 | She also hears from the next generation of scientists about areas they'd like to research. |
| 1:05.6 | I would like to understand our brain more. |
| 1:08.8 | I want to know more about nanotechnology, nanoparticles and how it can be |
| 1:13.0 | better used in medicine. I honestly think that next year, maybe the year after that, there would |
| 1:18.4 | definitely be a better cure for cancer because chemotherapy, radiotherapy, although it does |
| 1:24.2 | work, it's also very harmful. |
| 1:32.7 | And Damena also wants us to connect the drugs we take with the plants that they originally came from. |
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