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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorthorne. The world is currently pinning its hopes on the success of the new COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out.

But can we draw any comfort from previous efforts to conquer lethal diseases?

Gareth Williams, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Bristol, wrote a feature for the January issue of BBC History magazine, which discusses historical races to develop vaccines.

That's the subject of today's podcast.

He spoke to our production editor, Spencer Mizemizzen, about vaccines of the past,

touching on everything from Edward Jenner's War on Smallpox in the 18th century

to two rival scientists bitter battle to conquer polio in 1950s America.

Okay, so, Gareth, your feature in our January issue tells the story of the race to develop

vaccines to combat smallpox, rabies, TB and polio.

But before looking at these in more detail, I wonder if I could start by asking you if

you've been surprised by the speed of which a vaccine has been developed to combat COVID-19?

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