Turl Street
Narrow medieval lane lined by three historic colleges, small shops and a church turned library.
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This guide to Turl Street in Oxford follows Edward Abraham, a chemist from Florey's penicillin team, from a skiing holiday in nineteen fifty-eight back to a fungus that arrived in the post a decade earlier. It touches the race to beat bacteria that shrug off penicillin, the Nobel Prize that went to others, and a patent that changed one college's fortunes. Best heard standing on the east side of the street, facing the gate of Lincoln College.
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