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Radio 4,4 mins

Would you pay to put your plans for a family on ice?

Radio 4 in Four

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Fi Glover takes a look at the controversial trend of egg freezing. A growing number of companies, including Apple and Facebook, are offering it as a benefit and some UK tech companies are also discussing the option. Fi speaks to Brigitte Adams, a marketing executive who froze her eggs at 39 and is about to have one of them fertilised and implanted at 44. Fi also speaks to Professor Geeta Nargund, an expert in reproductive medicine and the Director of Europe's largest private fertility clinic. First broadcast on The Great Egg Freeze, 20 March 2017.

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