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51 minutes
Released:
Dec 16, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
The African-American lab technician, Vivien Thomas, who pioneered surgery that saved millions of babies, Otis Redding remembered 50 years on from his tragic death, the killer smog of the 1950's London, the man brave enough to hypnotise Uday Hussein and the Australian Prime Minister - lost at sea.
(Photo: Vivien Thomas, US Surgical Technician, 1940)
(Audio: Courtesy of US National Library of Medicine)
(Photo: Vivien Thomas, US Surgical Technician, 1940)
(Audio: Courtesy of US National Library of Medicine)
Released:
Dec 16, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Free Health Care for All: The birth of Britain's NHS; the Thalidomide trial; and discovering a baby woolly mammoth by The History Hour