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I'm no longer ravenous. I'll no longer eat until I fall asleep.

The Hunger Game, a new five-part series exploring the meteoric rise of weight loss drugs.

It's been an incredible story with these drugs.

The uptake, the amount of product that's been sold, the amounts of money

is cost. What the drugs do, how they work, and the knock-on effects of their widespread use.

We'll be sitting here in three years' time going, oh, it caused problems that we're now going to have to fix.

The Hunger Game with me, Professor Gilesio. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

Hello, I'm Shona McCallum. Welcome to TechLife,

the program about technology and how it can change lives. Artificial intelligence is advancing at a breathtaking pace. There are real concerns about where it's heading, but there are also

stories of

AI making a profound difference. Today, we're looking at one of them. People who, through

illness, have lost the ability to speak. Speech synthesizers have helped for years, typing

words that are then spoken aloud, but the voices sound flat, electronic, robotic, they just don't sound like you.

That's now changing. AI is giving people their voices back in a way that's personal, emotional and recognisably human.

That story is coming up. Later, I'll be speaking to an executive at Lenovo

about rising component costs at a time when the price of tech is under growing pressure.

And big things are happening in Africa's video gaming market.

It's growing at over 12% annually, which is nearly double the global average.

I'll be finding out what's going on. We start today with Avon Johnson.

Avon is 55. She lives in the UK. She's a mum of three and married to her husband, Orville.

For almost six years, Avon has been living living with motor neurone disease. It's a

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