4Ps
Season 1, Episode 15: The Vacation Discovery that Changes the World.
45:47
For this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites and People, Dr. Kate Martin follows the strange, moldy, world-changing story of penicillin: from accidental observation to lifesaving medicine, and from one famous petri dish to a much larger cast of scientists, patients, and microbes. Along the way, we look at how antibiotics changed medicine, why fungi are such astonishing chemists, and why…