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The Coventry Experiment. Why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without

their consent? By Samira Shackle, read by Danita Gohill.

In 2019, Shahnaz Akhtar, a postdoctoral researcher at Warwick University, was chatting to her sister,

who mentioned a documentary that had aired on Channel 4 in the mid-1990s.

It was about human radiation experiments, including one that

had taken place in 1969 in Coventry. As part of an experiment on iron absorption, 21 Indian

women had been fed chapatis, baked with radioactive isotopes, apparently without their consent.

Having grown up in Coventry's tight-knit South Asian community,

Acktar was shocked that she had never heard of the experiment.

When she looked into it, she found an inquiry by the Coventry Health Authority in 1995

conducted soon after the documentary aired.

The inquiry examined whether the experiment put the subject's health at risk

and whether informed consent was obtained.

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