Summary
The Oxford-AstraZeneca story, told by two of the scientists who made it possible. Fergus and James host the Newscast Vaccine Special and chat to Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, who led the Oxford vaccine project, and Dr Catherine Green OBE, who led on the distribution of the vaccine.
Today's Newscast was made by Caitlin Hanrahan, Georgia Coan, Danny Wittenburg, Ben Cooper and Alix Pickles. Nick Jones is the Studio Director. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | James, it's kind of weird sitting in Adam's chair. |
| 0:07.4 | Doesn't feel weird for me because I'm sat in my chair. |
| 0:09.1 | You look very comfortable though, don't tell Adam. But it's good that we are together because we're talking today. |
| 0:16.6 | We're that the whole program of newscast is about vaccines, a vaccine special, which I love |
| 0:21.9 | talking about. |
| 0:22.5 | And who else would you want than us to? |
| 0:25.6 | Well, us to and two very special guests who have written a book, Vaxas, |
| 0:31.9 | which is the inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. |
| 0:35.6 | Newscast. |
| 0:36.6 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:38.3 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:42.6 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 0:46.8 | Combined with contact tasting, testing, tracing, |
| 0:51.7 | tracing for you. Yes, yes, yes yes I'm a vegan so of course I don't like meatballs next |
| 0:57.4 | slide please Blair Blair Blair lose lose |
| 1:02.4 | hello this is focus in the studio. |
| 1:04.0 | With James, and we are joined today |
| 1:07.0 | by some very special guests, aren't we Fergus? |
| 1:09.0 | We are. |
| 1:10.0 | This is a vaccine special. |
| 1:12.0 | We're both AstraZeneca recipients. Two, two now. Yeah, I'm double dose. |
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