A story of international research into a possible link between a virus and cancer in humans told by DR DENIS BURKITT , who identified the cancer in Africa: PROFESSOR ANTHONY EPSTEIN , who isolated the virus in London: DRS WERNER and BRIGITTE HENLE from Philadelphia, who associated the same virus with glandular fever; DR PETER, BIGGS who helped to establish a similar virus as the cause of a cancer in chickens: and PROFESSOR GEORGE KLEIN from Stockholm, who studies how the virus changes human cells.
Introduced and produced by RICHARD KEEN