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Last broadcast on Tue, 4 Aug 2009, 23:30 on BBC Four (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
History books tell us that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, but that's not the whole story. This drama uncovers the forgotten team involved in the development and manufacture of the drug that transformed medicine.
Photo: scientific pioneers
From left to right: Alexander Fleming (Denis Lawson), Howard Florey (Dominic West) and Edward Mallenby (John Sessions).
Photo: Fleming and Florey
The man who discovered penicillin, Alexander Fleming (Denis Lawson), alongside Howard Florey (Dominic West).
War Beneath the Skin
Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin is part of a season looking at the complex biological war that rages beneath our skin.
More on this season of biology programmes at the BBC Press Office site
Credits
- Professor Howard Florey
- Dominic West
- Professor Alexander Fleming
- Denis Lawson
- Dr Ernst Chain
- Oliver Dimsdale
- Norman Heatley
- Joe Armstrong
- Dr Edward Mellanby
- John Sessions
- Dr Margaret Jennings
- Kate Fleetwood
- Dr Arthur Gardener
- Stephen Boxer
- Dr Ethel Florey
- Amanda Douge
- Charles Fletcher
- Sam Heughan
- Cecil Weir
- Ian Lindsay
- Master
- Christopher Godwin
- Charles Florey
- Harry Hosier-Beeson
- Paquita Florey
- Ambra Keegan
- Albert Alexander
- Jefferson Hall
- Janet
- Joanna Horton
- Director
- Peter Hoar
- Producer
- Pier Wilkie
- Writer
- Kate Brooke
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