麻豆社

It's six months to the day since Margaret Keenan - a grandmother from Coventry - became the first person in the world to receive a Covid vaccine outside of a clinical trial. Since then, millions of us have had our jab.

If you cast your mind back to your school history lessons, you might remember being told the first ever vaccine was invented by Sir Edward Jenner in 1796.

But more than 20 years earlier, Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty used the cowpox virus to give his wife and children immunity from deadly smallpox.

He was never credited at the time, as he didn't have the scientific standing in society, but he's since become known as the 'grandfather of vaccination'.

麻豆社 Radio Solent's Charlotte Foot has been to meet one of his descendants, 93-year-old Bill Jesty and his wife Vera.