Enda Brady: UK correspondent on bowel cancer rates soaring in England

Bowel cancer rates in England have soared among under-50s - leaving experts concerned.

New studies suggest more adults are developing early-onset bowel cancer worldwide, with figures across New Zealand, Chile, and Puerto Rico spiking annually.

UK correspondent Enda Brady puts this increase down to processed food and unhealthy diets becoming more common.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bryan Bridge.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
He's got to the UK in the Brady's with us.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good evening, Hey Ryan, good to speak to you.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good to speak to you too. England has the highest
right issue. We mentioned this earlier in the show. New
Zealand is worse, but England has the highest rate of
bell cancer in Europe.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, very worrying. Obviously. I saw the New Zealand line
as well, Puerto Rico and Chile in there the top four.
This is really worrying. So what we're being told here
is that out of the forty four thousand new cases
of bell cancer every year in England, about twenty four
hundred are in people under the edge of It's never

(00:37):
been happening before. To go back to the eighties and nineties,
it was nowhere near as high. It's rising about three
point six percent year on year, and we're being told
it is all down to diet and what has changed
England in the last twenty five to thirty years. It's
got to be the growth of ultra processed food. All
these additives and various differ in oils that they're putting

(01:01):
in and that they're being allowed to put into our foods,
and we're consuming and I'd have to say, I would
say the diet in England in the last twenty years
has probably gone downhill in terms of junk food consumption
as well lack of exercise. We have a huge problem
here with obesity. But these statistics today are absolutely shocking,
very very worrying.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Absolutely they down here as well. Please say they've identified
dozens of people of interest as they investigate that post
office scandal.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
So just to refresh listeners to what the post office
scandal was years ago. But twenty five years ago, they
brought in a new IT system called Horizon, and then
people who were running post offices up and down the
country and had been for decades without a problem, were
suddenly finding at the end of the day they couldn't
balance the books on this new computer system. And some

(01:52):
people were down maybe one thousand dollars a day, some
were down five thousand dollars a day, and this was
happening every day, and the post office management, rather than
admit that there was a fault with this IT system,
which had been put in by Fujitsu, they prosecuted their
own people. Some people went to prison, some people took
their own lives, people had their life savings taken from them.

(02:13):
People's lives were ruined by the management of the post office. Now,
this I covered for years and nobody was interested. You
go to court cases, you go to hearings, the media
covered it, but the public just it didn't punch through
until ITV released this drama earlier this year, about twelve
months ago, actually called Mister Bates Versus the Post Office,

(02:33):
and everything changed after that. It showed the human suffering
off the back of these decisions and really what was
a cover up inside the post office. Metropolitan Police have
come out now and said they have one hundred detectives
on this. They're looking at dozens of people of interest,
and they say they will go after them not only
in the post Office but also in fujitsu. They've seized

(02:55):
documents and I would imagine it's going to be a
very uncomfortable Christmas for the people who weren't responsible for this.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, that sounds like it. I'm rightly so too. Let's
talk about so that there was a Macbeth performance and
there was concern over audience behavior during this performance. What
exactly was going on here?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, so this happened last night in the West End.
David Tenant, hugely talented actor, absolutely brilliant guy as well.
People on and off stage and screen love working with
this fella. Macbeth and David Tennant was on stage and
apparently a male member of the audience had gone to
the bathroom, and when he returned from the bathroom as
the play was going on, he demanded to go to

(03:35):
his seat, and some of the workers at the theater
in the stalls said just wait until the interval, please
just stay where you are. I would imagine alcohol had
been consumed. Given the time of the year that it is.
This guy kicked off big time, huge commotion in the stalls,
and then the staff asked the actors on stage to

(03:56):
go back to their dressing room. So imagine the embarrassment
of having an as like David Tennant on stage and
him being told to kind of wrap up what he
was doing with the Shakespearean pre Christmas play and head
into the dressing rooms to wait while they deal with
this abusive man in the stalls. We're seeing lots and
lots of poor behavior in theaters here. There was one

(04:19):
famous incident last Christmas in Manchester, the Whitney Houston musical
The Bodyguard and some ladies in the audience that had
a little bit too much prosecco and they were singing
along to I Will Always Love You louder than the
lady on stage who was being paid to sing it.
So it needs addressing.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Just watch how much you're consuming, I guess, is the
moral of the story. If you're going to go to
the go to a musical, or go to the theater
into thank you very much for that. Good to hear
you on the show. I was always into Brady, a
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