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Radio

The man who discovered Ebola

Plus: the joys and difficulties of being a female conductor and a stay-at-home mum

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

By some quirk of fate, just as news reached the papers that the Scottish nurse who had contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone was now recovered, the guest on that Radio 4 staple Desert Island Discs was the scientist who first identified the virus. This gave a programme that can seem rather outdated and superficial a whole new resonance, providing the back story to the news, adding that frisson of inquiry, of revelation.

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