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A shortage of medical isotopes used to detect cancer has experts concerned that the shortfall could be delaying diagnosis and could even be costing lives.

Exactly what these nuclear medicines are and how they are made is key to understanding the national scarcity. So, we鈥檙e going back to basics and learning all about medical isotopes.

We also speak to world-famous conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall who, now aged 90, continues to travel the globe campaigning to protect the natural world.

Dame Goodall reflects on a life of studying our closest living animal relatives, chimpanzees, and as COP29 gets under way, speaks about the 鈥渃losing window of time鈥� to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.

Also this week, we answer the listener question 鈥淲hy don鈥檛 we just throw nuclear waste into volcanoes?鈥� and can Marnie spot AI vs real poetry?

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton
Producers: Ella Hubber & Gerry Holt
Editor: Martin Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth鈥�

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