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This has been a message from Audio UK. Hello, my name is Claire Longrig and I'm Deputy Editor of the Guardian Longreed.

This summer, we want to bring you our top picks of the year so far on the audio long read.

Today I wanted to introduce a piece by Sophie McBain titled, Look, they're Getting Skin. Are we right to save the world's tiniest babies?

The headline gives you a sense of the strange world we're in, where medicine has gone

beyond our understanding of what is possible, and extremely premature babies can survive

being born at 23 or even 22 weeks.

As you can imagine, the experience of parents of very premature babies is incredibly frightening

as they and the doctors do their utmost to save tiny babies born before their lungs and brains are fully developed.

Sophie speaks to couples who describe the terror and the hope,

but also the anxiety for these tiny babies wired up to machines for the first weeks of their lives.

The parents are thrown into the desperate work of trying to improve the baby's life chances,

while wrestling with the agony of whether or how much the babies are

suffering.

On the frontiers of new medicine, we encounter the tension between what science can achieve

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