Hey guys, it's Mark.
This week our standard news briefing programming is going to be taking a break.
Instead, we're going to share a range of shows with you from across the FT podcast network.
And we're going to start with a new series from the FT's tectonic podcast.
It's all about the longevity movement.
The series looks at all these weird treatments and technologies meant to help people live longer and how that idea of life extension has kind of gone mainstream.
The series is called Defying Death.
We're going to play the first episode for you,
and if you like it, subscribe to the Tech Tonic podcast for more.
We'll have a link to that in the show notes.
Enjoy.
I am going to put a tourniquet on.
I'm going to put it as tight as possible, not too tight,
but just so that the vein can pop out for me, OK?
I'm sitting in a brightly lit private clinic in central London.
where a nurse is preparing a syringe.
She swabs an area on my arm and then unwraps a fresh needle in cannula and pops them on a metal tray.
And I see two great amazing veins.
I'm probably going to go for this one.
OK, so you might feel a quick scratch.