Dr Eric Sidebottom and Professor David Cranston talk about the story of penicillin and the legacy of Norman Heatley (1911 – 2004) who was a member of the team of Oxford University scientists who developed penicillin.
Dr Sidebottom is a retired Lecturer in Experimental Pathology in The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and a medical historian, and Professor Cranston is Associate Professor of Surgery at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford.