Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,30 Dec 2020,26 mins

UK approves Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

World Business Report

Available for over a year

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved by the UK medical regulator... so could it be a game-changer? We ask Penny Ward, Visiting Professor in Pharmaceutical Medicine at King’s College, London. Plus we hear from Evan Spiegel, the creator of Snapchat about the idea behind his app sensation. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the MTA, is in trouble. Many people are shunning public transport in the city because of the coronavirus pandemic and passenger numbers are down by more than 70%; we hear from workers on New York's transport system. And the BBC's Elizabeth Hotson looks at how food outlets have been adapting to the covid challenge. (Picture of a vaccine via Getty Images).

Programme Website
More episodes