Saving your bacon: healthy-eating policy evolves

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Decades of messaging have not worked, so governments are trying new ways to get citizens to eat well, from scary labelling to taxing the junkiest foods. Will it work? The death of a plague researcher in Russia is made more mysterious by the government’s resolute lack of transparency. And a tribute to Cyril Hilsum , the inventor behind ubiquitous flat-screen displays. Watch extended clips from Insider here . Guests and host: Slavea Chankova, health-care correspondent Alex Turner, defence editor Ann Wroe, obituaries editor Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence” Topics covered: diet, public health, health policy Russia, plague, bioweapons Cyril Hilsum, liquid crystals, flat-screen…