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Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe talks to Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio 4.

Hear Peter Ratcliffe’s story of discovering how our cells adapt to low levels of oxygen, on The Life Scientific. In this engaging interview, the 2019 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine shares his journey from his school days in Lancashire, through becoming a kidney specialist, to the day he received a phone call from Stockholm.