Oliver Francis talks to Dr Jean Adams from the Dietary Public Health team at the Unit and Centre for Diet and Activity Research about how we might improve the nation's diet, the politics of what we eat, moving from medicine to public health and what motivates her scientific inquiry.

Oliver Francis talks to Dr Felix Day in the Growth and Development programme at the MRC Epidemiology Unit about genetics, puberty and unusual career trajectories.

This episode of The Confidence Interval features a recording of the Festival of Ideas event "Improving our Diets - More Freedom or More Control?". Governments try to improve our diets by labelling, taxes and manipulating what shops are on the high street. The right approach is not just a matter of what works, but involves questions about government and personal rights and responsibilities. Public health and policy experts explore the role of evidence and ethics in helping us decide how and when to intervene.