Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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535 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If I use an example of cancer, the HPV vaccine, human papillomavirus vaccine,
You get this shot and you're prevented for the rest of your life of getting this horrible, slow, painful killer of people in the developing world.
And it is now the most impactful vaccine that Gavi uses.
Yeah.
So I got a chemistry set.
I thought it was really fun.
And then it turned out there was a chemical company not far from my house.
And I went there as a young boy and I was apparently looking around with big eyes like a kid in a candy shop.
And the owner actually saw me and said, you know, do you want to help?
I can't pay you because you're underage.
It was about nine, I think, or ten.
And he allowed me to help in the place.
And I got to take home chemicals and laboratory wear.
And so I had the best equipped closet anywhere.
And, of course, as a young boy, I was not just doing experiments, but making explosives and doing all kinds of things.
Health and safety be damned.
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't by chance I went there.
I was peripatetic and my dean of my medical school thought it would do me good to, you know, get thrown into a system.
So I worked with an iconic civil rights physician and he had studied at the best institutions in the North, went back to Mississippi and tried to get privileges.
And they said, you have to join the American Medical Association.
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