Six conversations in which biologist Lewis Wolpert invites distinguished scientists to consider what they do.
5: 'The alternative in my family would have been "comingout" and that didn't seem to me a very attractive option.'
Dr Anne McLaren is Director of the MRC Mammalian
Development Unit at University College, London. The decision to exchange the upper-class social round for a scientific career was a far-reaching one, leading to major contributions in the fields of human and animal reproduction.
She contemplates the position of women in science and the nature of her chosen research. Producer ALISON RICHARDS