Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,03 Feb 1997,27 mins

Genetic screening

Discovery

Available for over a year

How genetic screening can help predict our future and the moral choices it may throw up. A look at how screening people for genetic disease could change modern medicine. Also in the programme, the grass that stays green and a novel way to decaffeinate coffee.

Programme Website
More episodes