Thank you to the British Science Museum for sharing the audio from its Late opening event to celebrate IVF is 40, where Louise Brown and Roger Gorsden a former doctoral student of IVF pioneer Robert Edwards and expert in female infertility, had a one-off in-conversation event in the IMAX Theatre, chaired by Science Museum Director of External Affairs, Roger Highfield.

The development of in vitro fertilization, or IVF, culminating in the ‘miraculous’ birth of Louise Joy Brown on 25 July 1978, was a defining moment for reproductive technology pioneered by British researchers. Louise’s birth followed ten years of experimentation, hundreds of failed attempts, and many setbacks for Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe, and Jean Purdy, the scientists responsible for this remarkable achievement.

This event accompanies a new exhibition, IVF: 6 Million Babies Later which you can hear from its curator Connie Orbach in a previous episode I released here 

I chatted with Louise a few years back and she talked about her life and her love of Take That 

You can also follow Louise on Twitter here

‘It’s very weird to think I started off life in that tiny dish.’ – Louise Brown.

Over on the blog, @RogerHighfield celebrates the anniversary of the birth that changed reproductive science. #IVFis40 https://t.co/FXTicwr5xm pic.twitter.com/TxD5WkSbZk

— Science Museum (@sciencemuseum) July 26, 2018