The movement to breed better people: its dark history and troubling present.
Radio 4,·6 episodes
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
Mendel's insights are taken up by the eugenicists.
The Nazis build a eugenic state.
The battle to control birth in 20th-century USA.
In Jazz Age USA, the wealthy political elite embrace eugenic ideas with gusto.
Eugenics is born in Victorian Britain and swiftly builds an international following.
