Senior Citizen Kane: Joy

The inspiring true story of three British pioneers who challenged societal norms and defied the odds to realise the world’s first IVF baby.

In the late 1960s, nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy, scientist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe realised that advances in medicine would allow them to oversee the fertilisation of an egg in vitro. The impact should they succeed would be seismic. But for every tiny step forward, the three faced the opposition of the Church, medical and political establishments, who saw their work as an aberration.

Ben Taylor’s finely tuned debut boasts an impressive cast working to Jack Thorne’s script, which covers the crucial ten-year period when three unlikely individuals and countless brave women worked together to develop this groundbreaking medical science that has changed the lives of millions across the globe.