09/01/2012

David Whiteley and the impact of alcohol. David Whiteley was part of an Inside Out team who agreed to avoid alcohol for all of December, including the festive period. The experiment was designed to reveal the effects of booze on our health. Experts have warned that as many as a quarter of a million people will die from alcohol abuse over the next two decades unless the government takes the problem as seriously as it did smoking.
Find out what the experiment proved and whether our presenter kept up his abstinence over Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Also, we meet the inventor of the synthesiser used by Pink Floyd and The Who, and still influencing today's electronic music. 50 years ago the idea of mixing music and electronics was revolutionary, in the 1960s Peter Zinovieff was one of the first people in the world to realise that electronics and computers were about to change the face and sound of music for ever. And the inventions he created transformed the way a whole generation of musicians worked.