Professor Lord Robert Maurice Winston was born in 1940. He graduated at London University in 1964 and held junior posts at the London Hospital from that time. In 1970 he joined the Hammersmith Hospital as a Registrar and became involved in research and development in gynaecological microsurgery.

He is well known today to audiences throughout the world for his several BBC television series, which include The Human Body, Secret Life of Twins and Superhuman.  Through these shows he has shown a great capacity for communicating often complex science concepts to a wide public audience. He is Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College School of Medicine, London University, and is world-renowned as a fertility expert. He also heads the Department of Reproductive Medicine at the Hammersmith Hospital in London.

He is a key speaker here today at the Oxford Literary Festival with his new book The Story of God.

 

 

 

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