Genomics for Dummies
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
It looks like we're going to have to understand new variants of the virus for a long time. Adam and Laura hear from the Cambridge scientist in charge of tracking them, Professor Sharon Peacock. And as quarantine hotels prepare to open up in the UK, we catch up with Rebecca in New Zealand as she leaves 14 days isolation.
Studio manager: Emma Crowe Producers: Danny Wittenberg, Alix Pickles, Kameron Virk, Jack Suddaby Senior Producer: Rick Kelsey Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, now you know I love a heartwarming vaccine story and it's even better when it's |
| 0:10.4 | got an intergenerational aspect, so we're going to hear a brilliant one now and we've got |
| 0:15.1 | Charlotte, who's 26, hello Charlotte. |
| 0:17.7 | Hello. |
| 0:18.7 | And her granddad David, who's 82, hope he doesn't mind me saying hello David. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello. |
| 0:23.8 | So why don't you guys just tell us the story of what happened. |
| 0:27.7 | David, you start off because you were going for your vaccination. |
| 0:31.3 | I had a letter from the NHS inviting me for a vaccination that either the Excel Center |
| 0:40.5 | or Epsom race course or a couple of other places and I knew that Charlotte was starting |
| 0:46.8 | work, voluntary work at the Excel Center on the Sunday, so I booked it for the Excel |
| 0:53.8 | Center on the Sunday thinking I might as a big place, I might be able to see her give |
| 0:58.8 | her away because although we've met up on FaceTime and Zoom calls, we've hardly seen |
| 1:03.8 | one another for a year. |
| 1:06.0 | In the event I got to the center, was told to go down a certain room and I said well I'm |
| 1:12.0 | trying to see my granddaughter Charlotte and it happened that she was in the very next |
| 1:17.3 | cubicle and she popped out and said I'm here Grumps and I've got Spasia, I can do it if |
| 1:22.4 | you like. |
| 1:23.4 | I couldn't believe it. |
| 1:25.2 | And so Charlotte, what did you think when you heard that voice and you popped your head |
| 1:28.7 | round the curtain? |
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