Fruits of the Earth
Tuesday 25 March 2008 23:00-23:15 (Radio 3)
Fruits of the Earth.
A series in which four writers contemplate why fertility has been such an important preoccupation for humanity and its art and ideas.
Playlist:
2/4. Developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert explains why the most important event in our lives is not birth, marriage or death but gastrulation - an early phase in the development of a human embryo.
Part of Radio 3's Rites of Spring season.
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