BBC Radio Podcasts from Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin
Welcome to Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin
Cover-ups, coincidences, and conspiracy theories: where did Covid come from?
1. Batshit
As a deadly new virus starts spreading in Wuhan, China, so do rumours about a lab there.
2. A Question of Trust
A team of top scientists ask where Covid came from. But can they trust data from China?
3. Uncertainty and Trump
US President Donald Trump wades into the Covid origins debate.
4. Mission: Impossible
A World Health Organization team heads to Wuhan. Will they find the truth?
5. Labs, Safety, and Risk
The lab leak theory goes mainstream. How safe are top-security laboratories?
6. Back to the Market
What really went on in that Wuhan market - and the curious case of the raccoon dog.
7. The Suspicion Business
Mysterious deaths in Soviet Russia and what they might tell us about the origin of Covid.
8. An Answer
Speculation that newly declassified US intelligence will contain smoking-gun evidence.