With unique access to five vaccine teams around the globe, this is the extraordinary inside story of the unprecedented quest to develop and make vaccines to fight Covid-19.
The extraordinary inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age – following a small band of vaccine scientists around the world who took on Covid-19 and ultimately delivered the weapon to beat it.
As news of the coronavirus broke around the globe, a small group of scientists jumped into action to tackle one of the greatest medical challenges of our time: to create a vaccine against a virus no-one had ever seen before and to do so in record time, all during a deadly, global pandemic.
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The results are in...
Duration: 02:02
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"Vaccine development has never been done at this speed before"
Duration: 02:27
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The race for a vaccine begins…
Duration: 01:33
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:47
Amazing Karaoke
Titanium
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Narrator | Lesley Sharp |
Director | Catherine Gale |
Editor | Cathy Houlihan |
Executive Producer | Helena Braun |
Executive Producer | Archie Baron |
Executive Producer | Janet Tobias |
Executive Producer | Roger Lopez |
Broadcasts
- Wed 16 Jun 2021 21:00
- Tue 22 Jun 2021 23:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Wales & Wales HD
- Thu 8 Jul 2021 01:45
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