The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian A team of Chinese scientists is trying to unravel the mysteries of cancer. They are working in the remote Lin Xian valley in central China, where the three-quarters of a million peasants have over 100 times the normal rate of oesophageal cancer.
They have uncovered an eerie situation in which the soil, the local plants and fungi, the ways of cooking, all combine to turn the food into powerful cancer-causing chemicals in the peasants' stomachs within an hour.
The team openly discussed with Horizon the Chinese approach to medicine.
Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN
A vivid picture of life in rural China.
(SUNDAY TIMES)
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
Written and produced by EDWARD GOLDWYN