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Jul 2021
30m 9s

Vaccine Queens

BBC News
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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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