Jim Naughtie talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling writer Siddhartha Mukherjee about the direction in which recent genetic discoveries are leading us.

Stephen Sackur talks to newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. Stephen speaks to one of America's leading cancer specialists, Siddhartha Mukherjee. Show more

Cultural discussion show. Andrew Marr on medicine and genomes with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Emily Mayhew, Giles Yeo and Aarathi Prasad. Show more

In the years since Darwin and Mendel, scientists have learned to 'read' the gene, but they are still fathoming how much of the information on the human genome determines who we are. Show more

Siddhartha Mukherjee's quest to understand heredity and family begins with a monk, Mendel, and his peas. Show more

Darwin's theory of evolution unlocked a world of understanding, but without a theory of heredity, it was incomplete. A monk in a garden with some pea plants might have the answer. Show more

Siddhartha Mukherjee's intimate history of one of the most powerful ideas in science. How Darwin's cousin coined the word 'eugenics'. Show more

Learning to 'read' our genetic information was a crucial development, much more dramatic is the growing science of 'writing' the gene. Genetic therapy is still in its infancy. Show more

HARDtalk meets one of America's leading cancer specialists Siddhartha Mukherjee. 8 years after the publication of his book 'The Emperor of Maladies', is cancer any less of a curse? Show more

Kirsty Young interviews Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Show more