Colourful Radio (Digital only - SKY 0194 ) 10.30am on 1st June 2007
Tim Statham, NKF Chief Executive discusses with UK Transplant the effects that the ENDEMOL(Big Brother) broadcast in the Netherlands will have on organ donation.
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According to News Agencies the Endemol programme was shown on Netherlands TV but at the end of it it was revealed as a hoax with the participants actors, including the person supposedly dying from Cancer - although it may be that the potential recipients were real Kidney Patients.
It remains to be seen whether any damage has been done to transplantation by broadcasting this programme.
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