Go to university. Get on the career ladder. Kiss a few frogs before finding your prince (or princess). But what does this mean for your eggs? How is it possible for a woman to have children these days at the biologically optimum age of around twenty five if you’ve got to do all those other things first? And what about the fact that these days many young people can’t even afford to leave home in their twenties, let alone get on the property ladder and think about settling down and starting a family?

White Slate Theatre’s play Re:Production explores this very modern dilemma and Diane Chandler’s novel Moondance charts the physical and emotional strain of IVF on a career driven couple who leave it very late to try for a baby. The artists were joined on stage for a discussion with Joyce Harper, Professor of Human Genetics and Embryology at the Institute for Women’s Health University College London, and Shaun Rogers,  Senior Embryologist and Laboratory Manager at Gennet City Fertility. Chaired by the Wellcome Trust’s Farrah Nazir.

To hear all the sessions audio visit the Fertility Fest website