Spelade
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Ep. 11 Putting a price on health
Billy Kenber set out to look into one story and ended up finding another. Hidden within open datasets was proof of a practice that was costing the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
Battling to put the pieces together in a quagmire of complex pricing structures and regulations understood by very few people, Billy blew the lid of a multi-million pound industry. And in the end one failed hypothesis led to an investigation that would change the law.
Read all about it:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/extortionate-prices-add-260m-to-nhs-drug-bill-8mwtttwdk
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/victory-against-rip-off-drug-firms-after-times-investigation-qm6hlmqts
Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan
Music: Dice Muse and Podington Bear
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A journalist is on the trail of a big story, unravelling how an 18 year-old rape victim came to be, not only disbelieved, but charged with false reporting after being attacked by a serial rapist. He is putting all the pieces together when he gets an email that will change everything…
Journalists Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller talk through how they told a story of two halves, one that wound up earning them a Pulitzer prize.
WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and bad language and is not suitable for all.
Read all about it:
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/12/16/an-unbelievable-story-of-rape?ref=hp-2-112#.nXDOj42tQ
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/581/anatomy-of-doubt
https://www.amazon.co.uk/False-Report-T-Christian-Miller/dp/1786330806
Hosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghan
Music: Dice Muse, Podington Bear, Fake Cats Project
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
