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`With just this one ejaculation it should be possible to impregnate all the fertile women of Western Europe!' You could be forgiven for believing that the above had been filched from the climactic scene of a Dolly-inspired pornographic remake of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Doctor F. bellows these crucial lines wearing only a film of sweat, hand-knitted woollen socks, a mask and a test tube), but the truth is infinitely more tantalising and transgressive than the fiction.
Welcome to The Human Body An Everyday Miracle (BBC1, 10.20pm), hosted by the boldly moustachioed and hypnotically obsessive Professor Robert Winston, whose fascination with the wondrous mechanisms of reproduction verges on the pathological. Witness him at one point proudly holding a dripping placenta on the flat of his palm with all the practised finesse of an Italian-trained pizza chef, while proclaiming passionately: `The...