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Horizon Special: The Vaccine

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.

1 hour, 29 minutes

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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:47

    Amazing Karaoke

    Titanium

Credits

Role Contributor
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

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