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Keeping the world’s people informed about health

With so many issues to choose from, how does Health Check decide what to cover? Plus a listener feels a report on the burning of a BBC reporter’s own house was extraordinary radio

This week we look at Health Check. With so many issues and breakthroughs to choose from, how do they decide what to cover?
We hear from the show’s presenter Claudia Hammond and listeners tell us what they think.
Plus how a listener feels a first-hand report on the LA fires burning down a BBC reporter’s own house was “extraordinary radio”.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon.
A Whistledown production for the BBC World Service

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9 minutes

Last on

Mon 27 Jan 202503:50GMT
BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East

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  • Sat 25 Jan 202509:50GMT
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    BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East

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