welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s great to be here. it s great to have you here. now, in your personal life, in your professional life, everything has been intertwined in terms of your campaigning work, your academic work. i just wonder whether you ever for a moment considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances, something like accountancy, law, geology. and you know what? there are short people, restricted growth people, in all of those professions. there are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything, who are short. but i didn t go that way. and so, as a social scientist, i ve always been interested in what i ve experienced. and so, obviously, disability has to be top of the list. let me ask you about growing up, because your family has its own history, which is important, i think, to talk about. your grandfather, it seems, experienced a mutation, a genetic mutation. my father. so he was born in 1927. william shakespeare unfor
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and so did my mother. she has been a fantastic great grandmother to my grandchild. but for her, maybe it was more questionable because she did not have it. she did not have the condition. my father did. so he knew it needn t be a problem and my mother didn t. ..doesn t and so for her maybe it was something you would want to avoid. you have, in your work on ethics, medical ethics, you have obviously looked at the history of the science behind the great genetic breakthroughs. you ve looked at the work of crick and watson and many others and you ve looked at their mindset. i wonder whether you, reflecting on their work, feel that alongside the brilliant science, there has been a mindset which has sought to somehow perfect the human being, the human species in a way that sometimes is perhaps counter productive? yeah, they were people