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EPISODE · Apr 23, 2026 · 37 MIN

Assisted dying bill expected to fall

from The World Tonight · host BBC Radio 4

With the assisted dying bill expected to fall in the House of Lords tomorrow, after months of highly charged and emotional debate, we ask what next for supporters of a change to the law. Also on the programme: the health data of half a million volunteers to the Biobank database ends up on Alibaba, is sharing your medical information risky or essential to scientific advances?And we speak to the filmmaker and ethnographer who spent time with female conspiracy theorists convicted for their actions during the January 6th Capitol Hill assault.

With the assisted dying bill expected to fall in the House of Lords tomorrow, after months of highly charged and emotional debate, we ask what next for supporters of a change to the law. Also on the programme: the health data of half a million volunteers to the Biobank database ends up on Alibaba, is sharing your medical information risky or essential to scientific advances?And we speak to the filmmaker and ethnographer who spent time with female conspiracy theorists convicted for their actions during the January 6th Capitol Hill assault.

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