Scotland’s Drug Problem
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Drugs deaths are falling in Scotland, but it continues to have the worst drug death rate in Europe.
Scotland editor James Cook has been to Portugal, where they’ve decriminalised drugs for personal use. He’s on to talk about whether its working, and what the UK could learn, with Professor Fiona Measham, chair in criminology at the University of Liverpool.
And could we be on the verge of a national screening programme for prostate cancer? Health editor Fergus Walsh is in the studio to talk about the disease, which 1 in 8 men suffer from.
Plus the funniest gag at Edinburgh fringe this year.
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Clare Williamson and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
00:00 - The Edinburgh Fringe’s funniest gag 03:18 - Why does Scotland have the worst drug death rate in Europe? 22:24 - A potential prostate cancer detection breakthrough
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, the Edinburgh Fringe is drawing to a close, and as is traditional. |
| 0:09.9 | We now have The Joke of the Festival, which is sort of wheeze by the comedy channel, Dave, |
| 0:16.0 | where they get a panel of experts to watch loads of shows, |
| 0:19.6 | pick a shortlist of ten jokes, and then get the public to vote on their favourite. |
| 0:23.7 | And the winner is, in fact, a newscaster. |
| 0:26.2 | And she's here now. |
| 0:27.1 | It's Lorna Rose Treen. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello, Lorna. |
| 0:29.2 | Hi. |
| 0:29.7 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:31.1 | Congratulations on your fantastic victory. |
| 0:34.3 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:35.6 | Now, I know the thing that comedians hate the most is being told |
| 0:39.2 | to just be funny on the spot. So I'm going to give you a choice. Do you want to do the joke now, |
| 0:43.8 | or shall I just point people in the direction of where they can find the joke and give them the gist? |
| 0:48.2 | You do the joke. I think it would be the best if you did the joke. If I did the joke. |
| 0:53.3 | I think it'll be funnier. Okay. I started, here it. I'm |
| 0:57.8 | false start. Right. Here it is. I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheater. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, that was brilliant. Woo! Five stars. I mean, there's not a lot of Atmos here in this studio, |
| 1:09.4 | so it's very hard to, like, I'd like a crowd whooping and people laughing. |
| 1:13.0 | But anyway, very good. |
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