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Suicide prevention programme in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Dr Mark Robinson, his team at Leeds Metropolitan University, consultants from MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow and Men's Health Forum Scotland, were appointed to conduct an evaluation of the Choose Life awareness campaign in North Lanarkshire, which began in spring 2011. In this episode Greg Burgess, Choose Life Co-ordinator at North Lanarkshire Council describes the awareness raising campaign which he has lead since 2007. Following Greg we hear from Dr Mark Robinson who explores the research methodologies his team used, and discusses the challenges and learnings from the evaluation. This episode was recorded during suicide prevention week 2012. Transcript of episode Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free