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"Channel 4 boss Jay Hunt has confirmed that the controversial Drugs: Live project will air this autumn. The long-awaited TV show will feature celebrities and ordinary people testing illegal substances, and is intended to launch a discussion on the impact of drugs on individuals.    &amp;quot;Half a million people a year are quite regularly taking ecstasy,&amp;quot; said Hunt at the Edinburgh TV Festival. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re having an intelligent conversation about what the impact of that is going to be. &amp;quot;It will air this autumn and it&amp;#039;s been quite a journey getting there. I was very tempted to make a show called The Making of Drugs: Live.&amp;quot; The C4 controller confirmed that the show would involve Keith Allen and members of the public, such as a female vicar, taking MDMA.  &amp;quot;It will be a weird and eclectic bunch of people,&amp;quot; she said. Hunt also revealed that large chunks of the show would have to be pre-recorded because of the requirement to do blind testing. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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