Скачать или смотреть Spinning Plates Ep 40 - Dr Catherine Green

My guest this week has just helped saved the world! Or at least made it possible for us to hug people again… Dr Catherine Green is part of the team in Oxford who designed and developed the AstraZeneca vaccine. Together with her colleague Dame Professor Sarah Gilbert she has just written a book 'Vaxxers' which explains in a thrilling and readable way, just how they did this, in the hope of communicating the science behind it and reassuring those who are vaccine hesitant at the moment. I was due to speak to Dr Green in person but two of my children got covid that very week, so instead we spoke down the line. Very frustrating not to actually meet her in person but with Dr Catherine Green OBE - or Cath as she is more often known - even a glitchy line couldn’t dampen her energy, enthusiasm and humour.

We talked about how she's never felt particularly 'mumsy'; how her friends looked out for her at the height of her work on the vaccine, leaving flowers or food on her doorstep for her; and how her 10 year old daughter Ellie has insisted they install a disco ball in the kitchen of their new house. Ellie sounds fabulous and clearly a girl after my own heart!

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