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Professor Andrew Pollard is one of the leading scientists behind the Oxford/Astra-Zeneca vaccine. Here he reflects with Aled Jones on an extraordinary year in which his 鈥渄ay job鈥� took on global significance and on the parallels he sees with his Roman Catholic faith.

He told Aled that the success of the vaccine programme was not down to any 鈥淓ureka moment鈥� but due to the remarkable teamwork of people across continents united by a shared vision:

鈥淓ven today, there's about 2000 people, in our teams around the world working on the vaccine from all different backgrounds in three countries, which are enormously different in their makeup of ethnicities and religions. And yet they've all come together 鈥� with this shared goal of a vision of developing a vaccine that could be deployed around the world, not for profit.鈥�

Although Professor Pollard is careful to say there is a long way to go yet, he sees how the vaccine is bringing hope to the world and that, for him, such hope connects with his personal faith:

鈥淚 think, particularly as we come up to Easter and the hope that brings, [this] really to me does resonate with all of the efforts around vaccine development and thinking about the hope that that brings to the whole world.鈥�

See more on Songs of Praise 鈥淔inding Hope鈥�, Sunday 28th March at 1.15pm and on iPlayer

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