Summary
Tracking the virus hunters who race to understand and extinguish new pathogens. Sars Cov 2 is the virus responsible for the pandemic of 2020. But there are millions of other viruses living around the world, any one of which could mutate and infect us at any time. Scientists are in a never-ending race to identify these viruses and contain their dangerous effects. Oxford Professor Trudie Lang, director of the Global Health Network, hears from some of the virus hunters who work against the clock to research and combat these threats. Fighting epidemics requires effort from across the scientific spectrum. What we learn from the outbreak of Covid-19 will be crucial beyond understanding this coronavirus, but also when the next Virus X comes - and it will come.
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | My name's Louis Tharu. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm doing a new podcast for Radio 4. It's called |
| 0:46.1 | Grounded with Louis Thruu. I've assembled a series of interviews from my own home. |
| 0:51.0 | The idea is that we can dig a little deeper, peel back the layers and find out who they really are, |
| 0:58.0 | a free-flowing exchange of ideas, reflecting on what's going on now, but also looking back at the past. |
| 1:06.7 | And featuring at no extra cost extraneous family noises in the background and dodgy microphones. Two people communing through the miracle |
| 1:17.1 | of the interweb at long distance and yet so very close. |
| 1:22.4 | To hear new episodes as soon as they go live just |
| 1:25.8 | subscribe to Grounded with Louis Thruu on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:32.0 | Hi I'm Riana Dillon, and this is seriously. I'm going to introduce you to some remarkable individuals doing some remarkable |
| 1:47.3 | research. The scientists who work in some of the world's most challenging settings, often putting themselves dangerously close to parasites that most of us would run to avoid. |
| 1:57.0 | Virus hunters, the epidemiologists, the threat detectives. |
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