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21/03/2013

Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and Evan Davis, including George Osborne and Ed Balls on the Budget, plus doctors and placebos, and why do we like monsters?

Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and Evan Davis, including:

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"The plan is not working" is what the shadow chancellor Ed Balls said yesterday's budget showed. Ed Balls explains his view of the new Budget.

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A new study suggests 97% of GPs have prescribed a placebo at least once in their careers - that is something that has no clinical benefit for the patient's condition. Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of GPs, and Margaret McCartney, a GP from Glasgow, analyse the effectiveness and ethics of placebos.

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Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has urged George Osborne to make a swift economic "U-turn", after growth forecasts for 2013 were halved to 0.6% in the Budget. George Osborne defends his decisions on the 2013 Budget.

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A picture will be released by the Planck Space Observatory at nine o'clock this morning of the oldest light in the universe. Dr Jo Dunkley, a lecturer in astrophysics at Oxford University, explains the work at Planck.

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Thu 21 Mar 2013 06:00

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  • Thu 21 Mar 2013 06:00