Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries

Miracles In The Womb (2007x60)

Air date: Feb 15, 2007

Following last year's enchanting film using special effects to re-create the gestation of mammals such as elephants and dolphins, we're now shown what goes on in a woman's uterus when she's conceived twins, triplets or even quads. The footage is accompanied by specially commissioned poetry by Roger McGough and Brian Patten, which, while delightful, sounds a bit too cosy for a quasi-scientific documentary. But the real-life endoscopic footage and the "4-D" ultrasound scans are fabulous and there are intriguing biological snippets, including the suggestion that one in eight of us may have started life in the womb with a sibling.