A Child of Science
Author(s):
Gareth Farr
Company:
Bristol Old Vic and Impossible Producing
The pioneering story of Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy’s creation of IVF, and the army of women whose bravery helped them achieve the impossible.
Faced with fierce criticism and hostility and hounded by the media for “playing God”, trials were kept under wraps.
But their determination to give hope to thousands of families struggling to conceive eventually led to one of the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of our time: the birth of a baby girl and the creation of IVF, a procedure which has supported the birth of over 12 million babies worldwide over the last 45 years.