00:00But also, in this country, it's not that simple either, you know, that we deny so much to
00:24so many.
00:25Louise Brown, you know, who's here tonight, you know, she's a working-class woman, you
00:29know, IVF has become a luxury, and the thing that Bob, Jean and Patrick said again and
00:35again and again was, infertility is a medical condition, it's a medical condition and it
00:41deserves medical attention, and we don't do that here either.
00:44So yes, what's happening over there is important, what's happening here is also important.
00:48Yeah, no, yeah, oh no, it was, I mean, I knew it was controversial when she was born, I
00:53remember that, but I didn't, until I read the script and started to talk to Jack, the
00:57writer, I didn't know how vicious the opposition was and how fierce it was.
01:02And to know that that science has its roots in these three, the hard grit and determination
01:09of these three scientists is hugely humbling, and they have all these pictures of all the
01:14babies that they've created, like, every single one of them has brought about the joy which
01:20Louise Brown brought about, and then some, and you know, there's a statistic at the end
01:24of the film, I'm not going to give it away, but like 12 million IVF babies have, it's
01:30incredible, so, yeah, going to that clinic, it's a place of joy, it's also a place of
01:37disappointment and pain, not every IVF story ends happily, and so it's a very charged and
01:41emotional place, but, you know, I'm just grateful that I live in a country where that clinic exists.
01:46I mean, I'm glad for the three pioneers, they finally got the recognition they deserve,
01:52because without them, I wouldn't be here, nor would 12 million of us, so pleased for
01:59their families, very close contact with them, so, it's like really a big extended family,
02:06so it's really, really nice.
02:08It was a real responsibility, it's a film, a conversation that is relevant to, you know,
02:18the majority of the people on this planet, so a lot of heart and care and effort went
02:26into making it.
02:28It's a very personal story to me, because we've got, me and my wife have two babies
02:34already made possible by IVF, so I came to it with just an enormous sense of gratitude
02:43and wanted to do anything I could to sort of repay it somehow, which involved me hopefully
02:50not messing it up, but it was...
03:04It's a very personal story to me, because we've got, me and my wife have two babies
03:09already made possible by IVF, so I came to it with just an enormous sense of gratitude
03:15and wanted to do anything I could to sort of repay it somehow, which involved me hopefully
03:22not messing it up, but it was...
03:26It's a very personal story to me, because we've got, me and my wife have two babies
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