nearly 7,000 people in the uk right now need organ transplants. sometimes the wait for these lifelines can be long and agonising, and not everyone survives them. we clearly need more donors. but 3d printing might be able to offer a solution. yeah, scientists are developing a method to create organs from living tissue, which can then be translated into patients who need them. shiona mccallum has been to gothenburg in sweden to find out more. it s been more than 70 years since the first successful organ transplant a kidney. the chances of further operations of this kind being conducted. people who want to donate their organs can have their names put on a computer by using, for example, a new type of driving licence application form. and thanks to the donor register, heart, lungs and livers are now among the 100,000 organs replaced every year. when you lose someone and they ve given that gift, that huge gift, you are immensely proud of them. but even now, it remains a difficul
Is titania s love interest, the comic character bottom, whose head is transformed into that of a donkey. this year, it s being performed by american bass baritone brandon seidel. the first time you put on the donkey head, it s a little, it s hot first and foremost, and it s a little overwhelming. but then there s plenty of time to adjust. rehearsing is a joy and it s so exciting to kind of bear witness to what everyone does here. and something that glyndebourne does that i think is fantastic is that every part of the house operates on the highest level. so you feel the energy that the costume designers and the set designers and the wig department and make up department, everyone wants to do their best. executive chairman gus christie and his team at glyndebourne want to deliver the best. but to do so with an eye to the environment.