What causes vaccine hesitancy?
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
There have been nearly 200 cases of measles in the UK so far this year.
Measles can be prevented with vaccines - but the proportion of children being immunised is declining across the UK, particularly in parts of London.
James visits Hackney, which has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, to find out why and to see what is happening to tackle this issue.
And have you tried an adaptogenic drink? They claim to relax the mind, without giving you a boozy hangover.
James samples some in the lab and then gets behind the wheel of a simulator to see what it does to his driving skills…
Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Gerry Holt Researcher: Thomas Hunt Editor: Ilan Goodman Production coordinator: Stuart Laws Sound engineer: Giles Aspen
Inside Health was made by the BBC’s Audio Science Unit in collaboration with The Open University.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.2 | Savings, credit cards, car finance, reclaiming, insurance, investing, power of attorney, decision, |
| 0:12.2 | indecision, analysis, paralysis. |
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| 0:21.2 | I'll walk you through a big money saving topic step by step. |
| 0:24.5 | Then in question time, you set the agenda and ask whatever's on your mind. |
| 0:28.6 | Would you rather be locked in an empty shopping centre with a thousand snakes or just one gorilla? |
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| 0:34.2 | The Martin Lewis podcast, listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.5 | Hello there and welcome to the Inside Health podcast with me, James Gallagher. |
| 0:42.4 | Have you tried any of the adaptogenic drinks you'll have seen in the supermarket? |
| 0:47.4 | They're the ones that claim to relax the mind, but without giving you a boozy hangover. |
| 0:52.7 | Well, I'll be sampling some later and we'll see what it does to my driving skills. |
| 0:58.4 | Oh, mate, me, me, babe, babe. |
| 1:01.5 | But first, we're focusing on measles. |
| 1:04.3 | There have been nearly 200 cases in the first two months of the year. |
| 1:08.8 | Nearly half were in Enfield and Haringay in North London. |
| 1:12.9 | Measles can be prevented with vaccines, but the proportion of children being immunised is in |
| 1:18.4 | decline. If 95% of children are protected, then the virus struggles to spread. But nationally, |
| 1:25.2 | the number is 84%. In Hackney in London, only 58% of 5-year-olds have had both of their |
| 1:33.5 | MMR jabs. It's one of the lowest figures in the country. I spent the day in Hackney to find out |
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