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15/10/2010

Presented by Jenni Murray. Can artificial flowers ever measure up to real ones? Should IVF be funded on the NHS? Janet Suzman on Antony & Cleopatra; and WW1 nurse Edith Cavell.

Presented by Jenni Murray. Can artificial flowers ever measure up to the real thing? Three Primary Care Trusts have recently suspended funding for IVF on the NHS along with other cost saving measures. In the current financial climate should IVF be funded on the NHS at all? Actress turned director Janet Suzman talks about directing Kim Cattrall in the title role of Antony & Cleopatra at Liverpool Playhouse - a role Suzman made her own almost 40 years ago; And the writer Diana Souhami talks about her new biography of the British nurse, Edith Cavell, shot by the Germans during World War I.

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  • Janet Suzman

    Directing a new production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Liverpool Playhouse, starring Kim Cattrall.

    Duration: 09:53

  • The future of IVF on the NHS

    With Charles Kingsland, from the Hewitt Centre for Reproductive Medicine at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Dr Anna Smajdor, Lecturer in Ethics at the University of East Anglia

    Duration: 13:28

  • Edith Cavell

    Diana Souhami's new biography of the First World War heroine

    Duration: 08:06

  • Artificial flowers

    Interior Designer Abigail Ahern and Sam Youd, Head Gardener at Tatton Park in Cheshire, discuss whether they can ever be as good as the real thing.

    Duration: 10:16

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  • Fri 15 Oct 2010 10:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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