What can the UK learn from other countries about assisted dying?

Euthanasia is illegal in the UK. All attempts to change the law have failed. Other countries have legalised Assisted Dying and/or Euthanasia. In this week’s Briefing Room with David Aaronovitch we find out what their experience has been and what, if anything, the UK could learn from that. Joining David on the programme are: - Imogen Goold Professor of Medical Law at University of Oxford

- Agnes van der Heide: Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam

- Thaddeus Pope: Professor, Health Law Institute, Mitchell Hamline School of Law (Minnesota, USA)

- Richard Huxtable: Professor of Medical Ethics and Law at the University of Bristol Production: Kirsteen Knight, Alex Lewis and Claire Bowes

Production Co-ordinators: Jacqui Johnson and Gemma Ashman

Sound: James Beard

Editor: Richard Vadon