TV Review: Little Fires Everywhere
Fresh from the acclaimed Sky series 'Big Little Lies', Reese Witherspoon produces and stars in another big-budget production that explores the complex dynamics of family relationships from female perspectives...
Susan Tranfield-Thomas
Teacher and founder member of Daisy Network
Susan Tranfield-Thomas is a Volunteer Writer for BioNews. She is a teacher and founder member of Daisy Network.
BioNews Articles by Susan Tranfield-Thomas
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Podcast Review: SART Fertility Experts — What is IVF?
'SART Fertility Experts' is an educational project that aims to inform prospective patients about the various options available, through a series of podcasts conducted by experts working in assisted conception, including reproductive endocrinologists, reproductive urologists, genetic counsellors and mental health professionals...
TV Review: The Nest
The word 'nest' has several connotations — vipers, cuckoos, supernatural entities — so many malevolent associations pop into my head. A 'nest' in a gothic context is anything but a place of safety, so I settled down to watch BBC One's 'The Nest' ready to give my overactive imagination some exercise with gloomy nursery images of spooky rocking horses and dolls...
Radio Review: Trying to Find a Black Egg Donor
At 38 years of age, with four failed rounds of IVF behind her, Natasha wants to know why she can't find a non-white egg donor...
Radio Review: One to One: Benjamin Zephaniah Meets Richard and Terri Clothier (BBC Radio 4 available on iPlayer)
The psychological aspects of infertility are generally well-documented. Those who have experience of this will be all too familiar with the devastation, guilt, shame and anger that accompany the diagnosis...
Film Review: Only You
'I don't care how old you are — you're gorgeous' says Josh O'Connor's character Jake, PhD student and DJ, on hearing that his new girlfriend Elena is 35 (to his 26). The age gap is not enough to shock the viewer or stand in the way of Jake and Elena's mutual lust though it will, in due course, stand in the way of the couple's cherished hopes for a baby...
Book Review: Breakthrough Babies - An IVF Pioneer's Tale of Creating Life Against All Odds
Dr Simon Fishel, founder of the CARE Fertility Group, has a long and distinguished career behind him. As a young biochemist he began his research career at the University of Cambridge with IVF pioneer Professor Robert Edwards, who together with Dr Patrick
Video Review: 'Your Fertility Matters' — Fertility Education Initiative
'Your Fertility Matters' is a short public education film by the Fertility Education Initiative, a special interest group of the British Fertility Society. This animation is aimed at 'young people who may have been told how NOT to get pregnant but will li
Book Review: Dreams Before the Start of Time
'Dreams Before the Start of Time', a novel by Ann Charnock, 2018 winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for SFX Book of the Year, begins in a not-so-distant possible future. In this world, humans exert so much control over reproduction that, over the cours
Book Review: 21 Miles - Swimming in Search of the Meaning of Motherhood
Jessica Hepburn, author of 'The Pursuit of Motherhood’, former executive director of the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and founder of Fertility Fest, underwent 11 rounds of unsuccessful IVF, multiple miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy