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Resistance movement: how a play about penicillin brought the arts, science and politics together

by Deborah Linton

Championed by a former chief medical officer, Lifeline is both a musical following Alexander Fleming's discovery of the first antibiotic and a warning about the threat of superbugs in the present day The floor of the United Nations is rarely handed over to musicians; when it is, it's to global superstars such as Abba, Beyoncé and K-pop band BTS. So why, then, has a foot-stomping, folk-infused Scottish musical been a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:54pm on March 31, 2026