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The Cutter Incident

In 1955 more than a hundred thousand children in America were inoculated with a defective batch of the brand new polio vaccine because of a manufacturing mistake. Simon Watts has been talking to Anne Gotzdanker one of the victims of what became known as the Cutter incident. Still to come in this podcast Joan Littlewood's influence on 20th century British theatre and the women who are the unsung heroines of NASA.

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