THE books podcast: Rachel Bowlby interview

Our fifth Books podcast features Rachel Bowlby, author of A Child of One’s Own: Parental Stories, this week’s Times Higher Education Book of the Week. The University College London professor of English is in conversation with THE's books editor, Karen Shook. They discuss the view of parenthood in a range of literary works, including Mansfield Park, Great Expectations and Silas Marner, and the social and personal impact of recent developments in reproductive technology.