If you've had time to digest this year's Christmas edition of The BMJ, you might have wondered how those papers get into The BMJ.

Well in this Talk Evidence podcast, Helen Macdonald, UK research editor at The BMJ talks to two of her research team colleagues, John Fletcher and Tim Feeney, as they talk through why they chose their favourite papers.

Toxicological analysis of George’s marvellous medicine

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4467

Does medicine run in the family—evidence from three generations of physicians in Sweden

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4453

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