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Professor Sarah Gilbert & Dr Catherine Green's account of producing a vaccine to combat COVID-19 continues. Today, scaling-up production & preparing to manufacture millions of doses begins. Meanwhile, hundreds of vials of vaccine needed for clinical trials in the UK are waiting to be collected from a lab in Italy, but it's March, 2020 and commercial planes are grounded. Read by Debra Baker.

From the outset it was a race against the deadly virus that has caused - and continues to cause - devastation across the planet. Professor Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green explain the cutting-edge science, and sheer hard work that went into the extraordinary achievement of making an effective vaccine against Covid-19, and at the same time giving us hope that an end to this pandemic is in sight. All the while, throughout 2020, like everybody else they were adjusting to living and working through lockdowns and restrictions.

Sarah Gilbert is Professor of Vaccinology at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, and her career has been dedicated to developing vaccines against disease. Since 2020, she has led the Oxford vaccine project. Catherine Green is Associate Professor in Chromosome Dynamics at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, a Senior Research Fellow at Exeter College, and Head of Oxford University鈥檚 Clinical BioManufacturing Facility.

Abridged by Katrin Williams
Produced by Elizabeth Allard