Marianna in Conspiracyland 2: 4. The Archaeologists
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BBC
4.0 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Are we equipped to deal with a rising tide of misinformation? The BBC’s social media investigations correspondent Marianna Spring investigates how safeguarding procedures work and how social services and hospitals are trying to deal with the mainstreaming of medical misinformation. She speaks to a social worker who says it’s time for the law to be reviewed in England and finds out more about what happened to Paloma in the months after she left hospital. Were there missed opportunities to help her?
Host: Marianna Spring Producer: Anna Harris Story Editor: Matt Willis Sound Engineer: Tony Churnside Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele Editor: Sam Bonham Commissioning producer: Nathan Jones Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts This was a BBC collaboration with Panorama. Watch Cancer Conspiracy Theories on iPlayer now.
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| 0:00.0 | An early start here. |
| 0:02.7 | It's time to kick off. |
| 0:04.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:05.8 | What a line-up. |
| 0:07.2 | Oh, thanks very much. |
| 0:08.3 | We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:10.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:12.2 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:14.1 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:17.6 | And everything in between. |
| 0:19.0 | BBC sounds packed with personality. |
| 0:24.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:32.2 | I did come home from uni a few times actually to try and see her, but then she would tell me that she'd |
| 0:39.0 | had blood tests and her immune cells were very down and she couldn't have visitors. |
| 0:45.4 | Chantal, Paloma Shemarani's friend, tried to stay in touch as much as she could while Paloma |
| 0:50.5 | was ill with cancer. She really lost control of her, like, bodily functions, or she was throwing up, like, nonstop. |
| 0:59.3 | And she would say that, I just don't want you to see me in that state. |
| 1:02.8 | So sometimes we would plan for it. |
| 1:04.6 | And then it just wouldn't work out because she was too ill. |
| 1:09.2 | In April, 2024, several months after Paloma received her diagnosis, |
| 1:14.3 | Shantel did manage to see her in person for her 23rd birthday. |
| 1:19.4 | She was really excited and she wanted to do something. |
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