New Netflix film Joy has been astounding viewers with the true story of the decades of research that went into the development of IVF
The film follows the the pioneering breakthrough led by scientist Robert Edwards (James Norton), surgeon Patrick Steptoe (Bill Nighy) and scientist Jean Purdy (Thomasin McKenzie), who were on a mission to unlock the puzzle of infertility during the Sixties and Seventies, until the first IVF baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born at Oldham Hospital, Manchester, in 1978.
