Is watching sport good for you?
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As the emotional roller coaster of the Euros comes to a close and the summer Olympics begin, James joins Professor Damian Bailey for an experiment to measure the ups and downs of watching sport. We monitor brains, hearts, lungs and hormones to try to out if watching sport is good or bad for us.
But is there an additional risk for sports fans attending the summer Olympics in Paris? As climate change drives the tiger mosquito northwards there are concerns over the potential spread of Dengue in France’s capital. James talks to disease ecologist Dr Jennifer Lord to discover what France are doing to prepare for this mosquito-transmitted virus.
Plus, Professor Peter Openshaw joins James to digest the latest Covid-19 inquiry and what lessons we can learn for the next pandemic. Together, they discuss why we are currently experiencing a summer wave of Covid-19.
Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Hannah Robins Assistant producer: Katie Tomsett Editor: Holly Squire
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, |
| 0:05.4 | The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's |
| 0:10.6 | Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials |
| 0:16.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.6 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.2 | Hello there and welcome to the Inside Health podcast. I'm James Gallagher. I hope you're all well and |
| 0:39.2 | haven't fallen foul of COVID. It does seem to be doing the rounds again. So we're going to |
| 0:43.3 | figure out what's going on. And while we're on the topic of coronavirus, I think there are a couple |
| 0:48.5 | of things we need to unpick from the COVID inquiry last week. So we're going to do that too. |
| 0:53.9 | But first, I have a puzzle for you, |
| 0:55.8 | see if you can answer this. What has officials at the Olympic Games on high alert and scientists |
| 1:01.1 | in the UK celebrating a damp squib of a summer? Well, you see if you can work it out. We'll have |
| 1:07.7 | the answers before the end of the programme. And I did just mention the |
| 1:10.9 | Olympics. It really is a summer of sport. So I'm sorry to do this to you, but we are going to |
| 1:16.9 | relive England's agony in the finals of the Euros. We're going to find out whether watching |
| 1:22.6 | sport is good or bad for us. But first, this. The significant risk of an influenza pandemic had long been considered, written about and |
| 1:32.9 | planned for. However, that preparedness was inadequate for a global pandemic of the kind that struck. |
| 1:40.0 | There were fatal strategic flaws underpinning the assessment of the risks faced by the UK, |
| 1:46.6 | how those risks and their consequences could be managed and prevented from worsening, |
| 1:52.1 | and how the state should respond. |
| 1:54.9 | That was Baroness Hallett giving her first findings from the COVID inquiry, |
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