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Friday 12 February 2021 : As rich nations rush to secure millions of doses, how will poorer countries fare? We hear from the head of COVAX, the global initiative to...
Friday 08 January 2021 : Seafarers are among the forgotten victims of the pandemic - thousands have been stranded at sea for months as ports around the world refuse...
Wednesday 23 December 2020 : 2020 was the year of coronavirus, but also the year of Donald Trump, of Black Lives Matter and of Brexit. CNN correspondent Eleni Giokos...
Thursday 26 November 2020 : Misinformation about COVID-19 has spread as fast as the virus itself. So is there a cure? UN communications chief Melissa Fleming and...
Thursday 05 November 2020 : As much of Europe returns to lockdown, we listen again to author, podcaster and psychologist Adam Grant on how to survive - and even thrive....
Thursday 01 October 2020 : Nariman Behravesh, IHS Markit Chief Economist, says the worst may be behind us, but the economic crisis caused by the pandemic will be with...
Thursday 17 September 2020 : False rumours and conspiracy theories pose a real threat to the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine. Professors Paul Offit and Heidi Larson tell...
Wednesday 09 September 2020 : News of upcoming episodes of World Vs Virus in which we look at a global effort to counter anti-vax myths and find out how the characters...
Thursday 09 July 2020 : A look back on the pandemic to date, featuring interviews with, among others, Gita Gopinath and David Miliband. What have we learned and...
Thursday 02 July 2020 : The world champion racing driver-turned green investor tells us how the pandemic should be an opportunity to accelerate zero-emissions...
Tuesday 30 June 2020
Thursday 25 June 2020 : Mounting evidence suggests people who live with polluted air are more likely to catch and die from COVID-19. WHO’s Dr Maria Neira tells us...
Tuesday 16 June 2020 : Max Hall speaks to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala about issues facing Africa during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Thursday 11 June 2020 : She served as finance minister under two Nigerian presidents, rose through the ranks of the World Bank to become managing director, and now...
Thursday 04 June 2020 : This week the World Economic Forum and the Prince of Wales launched the Great Reset - a project to bring the world's best minds together to...
Friday 29 May 2020 : In January, Stanford historian and author Niall Ferguson saw the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan for what it was - a pandemic in the making....
Thursday 14 May 2020 : With sports in lockdown, online gaming is enjoying a bonanza. Will esports replace physical games in the long term? And why were gamers...
Thursday 07 May 2020 : What would a child ask a doctor about COVID-19? On this week’s World Vs Virus, Dr Ranj Singh, presenter of BBC TV's 'Get Well Soon', takes...
Thursday 30 April 2020 : It infected one-third of the world’s population and killed 50 million people, but for most of us the Spanish Flu is little more than a...
Thursday 23 April 2020 : Jennifer Morgan, head of Greenpeace International, says why the fight against climate change must not be considered an unaffordable luxury...
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