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BBC Inside Science: How do we solve antibiotic resistance?

How do we solve antibiotic resistance?

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Also, the inescapable pull of a black hole and an EU ban on smoky flavoured crisps.

The looming danger of antibiotic resistance may have fallen out of the public consciousness but is still very much in the mind of those in public healthcare and research. As promising new research is published, the University of Birmingham’s Laura Piddock and GP Margaret McCartney get to the bottom of why antibiotic resistance is still so difficult to tackle. 

Marine biologist Helen Scales joins us in the studio to talk about her new book “What the Wild Sea Could Be” which uses changes in the Earth’s past to predict what we can expect to happen to our oceans in the coming years. 

Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen speculates on what happens in and around the extreme environment of a black hole as news of the first observations of the “plunging zone” comes to light.  

And as the EU head to ban smoky flavoured crisps we ask what the science behind this decision is with Food scientist Stuart Farrimond. 

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton 
Producers: Ella Hubber and Hannah Robins 
Researcher: Caitlin Kennedy 
Editor: Martin Smith 
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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