Breaking the Mould - The Story of Penicillin

Feature-length BBC drama telling the story of the development of the antibiotic drug penicillin in the 1930s and 40s by a group of Oxford scientists.

Dominic West stars as Howard Florey, the Australian scientist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for his role in the discovery of the life-saving drug.

Denis Lawson stars as Alexander Fleming, who has been more commonly credited with the groundbreaking discovery.