Is our noisy world killing us?
What's Up Docs?
BBC
4.4 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to What’s Up Docs?, the podcast where doctors and identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken cut through the noise around every aspect of our health and wellbeing.
This week, Chris and Xand speak to Professor Charlotte Clark, Environmental Epidemiologist at City St George’s, University of London. She explains how being exposed to transport noise over long periods of our life can have disastrous consequences for our cardiovascular systems, brains and minds. But how big a problem is this? And is there anything we can do to protect ourselves from the effects of noise?
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Presenters: Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken Guest: Professor Charlotte Clark Producers: William Hornbrook and Jo Rowntree Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar Editor: Kirsten Lass Assistant Producer: Maia Miller-Lewis Tech Lead: Reuben Huxtable Social Media: Leon Gower Digital Lead: Richard Berry Composer: Phoebe McFarlane Sound Design: Melvin Rickarby
At the BBC: Assistant Commissioner: Greg Smith Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:22.4 | We've prepared ourselves to step out onto the pitch at the end of the day. |
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| 0:32.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:36.3 | Chris, it's lovely to see you. |
| 0:38.2 | What have you got for me? |
| 0:39.5 | I've been reading books about the Old West. |
| 0:43.0 | And all of the people in these books, |
| 0:45.6 | the end of their long days of doing whatever they're doing. |
| 0:48.7 | Just being tough, just riding around on the range, dealing with cows. |
| 0:51.7 | Right. |
| 0:52.4 | They kind of come off the horse and they don't even |
| 0:54.5 | light a fire. They just eat some cold hash and collapse on the floor and they sleep on the bare |
| 1:01.0 | rock. At the same time as reading, you know, I'm on my third of this kind of book. We've moved |
| 1:06.8 | Indigo, our one and a bit year old out of our bedroom and into her own cot. |
| 1:11.1 | And in order for her to not cry all night, my little finger on her little toe is all it takes. |
| 1:15.8 | She just needs that point of contact. |
| 1:17.4 | Yeah, that's a primitive thing. |
| 1:19.0 | So last night I slept five hours in my pants on Indigo's floor. |
| 1:25.3 | So I'm just basically on floorboards with a very thin rug on it. |
| 1:28.5 | Western style. |
| 1:29.6 | And I'm feeling now an empathy with the people in the books. |
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