Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. In the first programme of the new series, Julian O'Halloran examines the reasons for the rising number of E Coli cases. The Scottish food poisoning scare, which has cost 16 lives and made hundreds ill, is close to being the world's worst outbreak of its kind. But the incidents of E Coli have rocketed over the past ten years, leaving a trail of deaths and kidney-damaged children. Tonight's programme asks whether lives could have been saved if the government had imposed some basic food and health measures.
Producer Sarah Lewthwaite
Repeated Saturday 5.00pm