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HOW many times, since radio stations started broadcasting in the 1920s, has it been predicted that radio would be superseded by the television or streaming services?
The queue outside a vaccination centre in Folkstone last week Credit: gareth fuller/pa SIR – Charles Moore rightly praises Kate Bingham’s brilliant achievement in securing vaccine supplies. We should not forget either the role of Professor Sarah Gilbert in designing the Oxford vaccine, along with her colleagues. There is a comparison here with two vital roles in the Second World War: the genius of R J Mitchell in designing the Spitfire in the late Thirties, and of Lord Beaverbrook, brought in by Churchill from private business in the 1940 crisis to cut through bureaucracy and speed ...