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Vaccine breakthrough

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Oxford vaccine appears safe and triggers an immune response. But what are the next steps? Our first guest presenter of the week, 5 Live’s Rachel Burden, is joined by Fergus Walsh and Professor Andrew Pollard from the Oxford research group. Studio Director: Tom Burchell Producers: Harriet Noble and Jo Deahl Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

Well, hello, everyone. It's Rachel Burden here

0:06.6

in the Five Life Studios in Sulford.

0:09.0

I'm certainly not Adam.

0:10.2

Adam's on holiday at the moment.

0:12.4

So a few other presenters have been called into

0:14.6

Ronald Mock and his pod, Den, with hands sanitized first.

0:18.9

And thankfully, holding my hand figuratively,

0:21.9

not literally, is Fergus Walsh, friend and colleague,

0:24.7

and former partner in crime on a very successful TV.

0:29.7

Many series from a few months ago.

0:32.2

And it seems only 11 hours since we spoke on the breakfast

0:36.9

programme together. A lot of times flown by,

0:38.7

but we did have a little mini coronavirus journey together.

0:42.6

We did. We did. Back all those weeks ago.

0:44.2

That lovely programme called coronavirus,

0:47.5

everything you need to know, which I think last

0:49.7

it was it three episodes?

0:51.0

Well, clearly, we answered all the questions

0:52.6

because they decided after three episodes to dump it.

0:55.8

But weirdly, there have been one or two more questions

0:58.2

that have needed answering.

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