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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Light from the Heart of Darkness?
Description: Both William and David McBride followed similar paths. Both revealed secrets that got them into trouble with the authorities. I remember when David's father William McBride was presented to the world as a hero for exposing the drug thalidomide which he was prescribing to his patients. Both David and his father, William, are whistleblowers – David in The Afghan Files and William about the abnormalities produced in children by Thalidomide. Both David's parents passed away before he has gone to trial for breaching The Defence Act for releasing 'information to people that weren't entitled to it, and it wasn't his duty to...