LORD Robert Winston did a fantastic job of providing the pro and counter arguments for the modification of genetics.

He spoke about characters in paintings from history and how the size and shape of their limbs as well as the curvature of some of their spines suggested illness or disease.

Professor Winston used classical music, video clips and a PowerPoint presentation with diagrams to break up the lecture of speech and keep the audience's attention.

He spoke about his personal experience of meeting a woman whose child died aged three-and-a-half from a genetic defect and asked him whether she could go on to have a healthy child (With his medical experience, she went on to have two healthy, happy babies).

There was also the stories of the first 103 women who had asked for their sterilisation to be reversed as many had felt 'less womanly' post-op and why he made it possible.

He entirely discredited eugenics as a way of creating a stronger world, which the Nazis used so heavily, to wipe out so many people so unfairly.

Plus there was the huge ethical implications of modifying genes, which in his eyes could lessen the value of how much we think of ourselves if we all became perfect super-humans.

The Professor of Science and Society at Imperial College London made time at the end of the lecture for questions from the audience, which included when an embryo becomes a person.

A lady also told Professor Winston that he had inspired her son to become a doctor, while there were also some questions that he found difficult to answer.

I would hugely welcome more lectures of this calibre in future, in a theatre setting, with an informal but educational theme.

How wonderful it was to have one of Britain's greatest medical minds to visit Dorset and share some of the findings of his life-long research with us for just a few short hours.