Buying Time review: Podcast explores an attempt to ‘cure’ ageing

Buying Time
Big Light Productions and Vespucci
Audible Original, from 27 April

IS IT possible to reverse ageing? In 2015, Seattle-based biotech company BioViva announced it had injected someone with experimental, anti-ageing gene therapies at a secret location outside the US. It later declared that the trial was successful and that changes to the individual’s white blood cells were equivalent to winding the clock back 20 years.

“If it was true, this had revolutionary, world-changing potential,” says journalist Frank Swain, a former staffer at …