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Apr 2022

30m 42s

Dementia: Could lessons from Covid help ...

About this episode

Just before the pandemic, the government promised a 'dementia moonshot' to blast us towards a dementia cure. What happened to it?

Today: former prime minister David Cameron and Sunday Times science editor Ben Spencer on Britain’s fastest growing disease, dementia.

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Guests:

- Ben Spencer, science editor, The Sunday Times.

- David Cameron, former UK prime minister and president of Alzheimer's Research UK.

- Willy Gilder, former BBC radio reporter, living with Alzheimer’s disease.

Clips: BBC, Channel 4 News, Sky News, ABC News, WRTV.

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