When the history books are written of the 2020 global pandemic, quite a sizable chunk of it could well focus on what happened this week.

Any chance of life returning to a degree of normality rests on the success of a vaccine to curb coronavirus.

A news that Pfizer's vaccine is 90% effective against COVID-19 has been

heralded as a turning point. A great day for science and humanity, said its chief executive.

To horribly misquote Emily Dickinson, hope is now the thing with Pfizer.

We'll discuss that and the ill-timed fallout of Boris Johnson's inner circle inside number 10

on this week's episode of Calling Peston with me, Daniel Hewitt, my colleague, co-host partner,

live partner and podcast partner, Shehab Khan.

Hello.

And we'll be calling our political editor Robert Pestan for his analysis.

And who is our special guest on the podcast this week, Sheehab?

We'll be speaking to Debbie Edward, our Asia correspondent. This virus obviously started in China,

in Wuhan, and we're interested to see what the situation is, not only in China, but the rest of

the continent. And pulling it all together behind the scenes is producer Lewis. How you doing,

Lewis? Hello, Dan. I'm good. How are oh dan i'm good how are you i'm good did you

miss me last couple of weeks haven't been here sounds like you missed me given that intro i did i did

what's the first distance when it's a heart grow fonder uh yes something like that yeah

something like that isn't it well not seen me for two weeks and i've been promoted to life partner

yeah so that's quite good well talking of distance we are socially distance, but for the first, I think in terms of order of importance this week of the vaccine,

the fallout in number 10, I think the only thing that could pip it is the fact that

Lewis, she and Dan are in the same room. It's nice to see both your faces. Is this the first time since

the first lockdown? I think we made. No, we did made... We did one. We did one where we were together.

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