Event 280
Gareth Williams
Paralysed With Fear
– Elmley Foundation Stage
Polio: a nightmare that terrified 1950s America almost as much as the atom bomb. Williams tells its story, from ancient Egypt to the iron lung and the cut-throat race to develop a vaccine. Today, we are on the brink of exterminating polio – but is this a battle we can ever win?
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