Sue Perkins, not surprisingly, with a vacuum cleaner. And Jack Whitehall and his story of meeting George and playing football with him. So there's a huge variety in there, really entertaining stuff.
Because yes, that's not a great story. But actually it was Jack Whitehall that made the connection. So Jack came around visiting the ward at Christmas 2017.
Of course, he's one of the Cambridge spies. But there was a major investigation across Whitehall investigation in the '60s that was done as a direct result of the defection of Philby. Now, Philby, of course, had been suspected in the '50s, and indeed left SIS, but he'd been exonerated.
of the Daily Telegraph and Times, and they were from the principals of Oxbridge Colleges and retired brigadiers and permanent secretaries in Whitehall . And they were all complaining that all this equalities have all, all very good--they had no objection to their treatment of women at all, but there was a problem that have been overlooked. And it was that they all inhabited listed buildings and it would cause terrible problems if they were required
an important place to do a population study, was that it was, as the researchers called, "exquisitely stratified". So you had through the ranks of the civil service, through the ranks of people who worked on Whitehall , you had five distinct categories. You had an executive class, an administrative class, a clerical class--, No, I'm sorry. an executive, an administrative, a professional, a clerical, and at the bottom was another category; these were the messengers, the janitors who kind of did all the work that was left for them.
but even if you take away all those things, just being low in the hierarchy has a measurable effect on your heart. That was shown with civil servants in the Whitehall study. They have a very sort of ordinary job, not too stressful, anyway.
What the researchers found was that, let me back up, they specifically wanted to study the causes, not the causes of heart disease but who was most likely to get heart disease, so that's why they were drawn to Whitehall Street because they had this great stratification by class. So what they found was that the people at the bottom of the group, of the 18,000 people, the people at the bottom had four times the risk of dying of heart disease as the people at the to. So there was something really negative about being at the bottom
It was what entailed, it was the things that could identify it as an intelligence report were removed from it. And then it was circulated to the Foreign Office and to certain other Whitehall departments. At the same time, rumors began circulating in London that there was some kind of inflammatory document around.
They always looked at the place first. She came up to London, and she broke windows in Whitehall in 1912.
The typical way in which government gets expertise is through something like an advisory committee, right? 10 people who sit on a committee, they meet face to face at Whitehall or in Washington three times a year. And they produce an enormous PDF of 100 pages.
I want to talk about three experiments. These are three experiments that are in the book that I think are, to me, offer a new structure and new approach to our engagement with our health. The first experiment takes place in London, on Whitehall Street. In the 1960's, in 1967, a couple of researchers from the London School of Hygiene came to Whitehall Street and decided that this was the place to conduct a unprecedented experiment. Whitehall Street is the epicenter of British government. It is the equivalent of, when you say Whitehall
health. The first experiment takes place in London, on Whitehall Street. In the 1960's, in 1967, a couple of researchers from the London School of Hygiene came to Whitehall Street and decided that this was the place to conduct a unprecedented experiment. Whitehall Street is the epicenter of British government. It is the equivalent of, when you say Whitehall in the UK it's the equivalent of saying Washington here. At the end is Big Ben, that's the Halls of Parliament, around the corner is 10 Downing Street, and up and down Whitehall Street are
Because we still, to this day, write a blog. Yeah, we've now raised, with the help of Googlers, with the help of Jack Whitehall , with the help of hundreds of thousands of people, I kid you not, 1.8 million pounds for the NHS for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity to help beat childhood cancer.
Street and decided that this was the place to conduct a unprecedented experiment. Whitehall Street is the epicenter of British government. It is the equivalent of, when you say Whitehall in the UK it's the equivalent of saying Washington here. At the end is Big Ben, that's the Halls of Parliament, around the corner is 10 Downing Street, and up and down Whitehall Street are all the government offices, right? So the Labor office, the Treasury, all the kind of offices of government. What's great, and what made Whitehall especially in the 1960's such
City was they decided what happens if we try to put the Hawthorne Effect to work? What happens if we try to put it to work and engage people in the idea that they're in an experiment and it turned out to work. So what do we do with this? What do we do with these three experiments? The idea of control of destiny from Whitehall , the idea of feedback in groups that we've gotten out of the National Weight Control Registry, and then this idea of making your life an experiment out of the orthodontic clinic in
in the UK it's the equivalent of saying Washington here. At the end is Big Ben, that's the Halls of Parliament, around the corner is 10 Downing Street, and up and down Whitehall Street are all the government offices, right? So the Labor office, the Treasury, all the kind of offices of government. What's great, and what made Whitehall especially in the 1960's such an important place to do a population study, was that it was, as the researchers called, "exquisitely stratified". So you had through the ranks of the civil service, through the