Laura Spinney: Podcast Interviews

Laura Spinney

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www.lauraspinney.com

2 Interviews

Laura Spinney is a writer and science journalist based in Paris.

Laura Spinney's Interviews

Nicola Davis & Mark Honigsbaum + Laura Spinney • 05 May 2021 • EN

What can we learn from the 1918 flu pandemic? – podcast

On 22 June 1918, the Manchester Guardian reported that a flu epidemic was moving through the British Isles. It was noted to be ‘by any means a common form of influenza’. Eventually, it took the lives of more than 50 million people around the world. In a special episode to mark the Guardian’s 200th anniversary, Nicola D

Dan Snow & Laura Spinney • 05 Feb 2020 • EN

Flu pandemics. Then and Now.

'We are very very vulnerable' says the brilliant science author and journalist Laura Spinney. Her fantastic book 'Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World' is a shocking account of the flu pandemic that killed tens of millions of people a century ago. What was Spanish Flu and what lessons are th