7 episodes
Surrogacy: A Family Frontier BBC Radio 5 Live
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4.6 • 37 Ratings
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Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and activist, explores attitudes towards surrogacy. He shares his own journey to have a child, with husband Tom Daley, through surrogacy. Lance explores the personal, scientific, financial and legal aspects of surrogacy. He talks to women who are surrogates, hears the experiences of straight and gay intended parents who have built a family via surrogacy and raises concerns about the current surrogacy laws in the UK. He asks ‘why are some people uncomfortable with surrogacy?’.
Lance meets anti-surrogacy campaigners and visits one of the US’s leading reproductive clinics in California which specialises in surrogacy and has clients from all over the world.
A six-part podcast series for BBC Radio 5 Live.
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Episode 6: Gay Dads
Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and activist, explores attitudes towards gay parents and surrogacy. He shares his own journey to have a child, with husband Tom Daley.
He explores attitudes towards same sex parenting in the UK and questions whether prejudice is part of the reason why some people are uncomfortable with surrogacy?
Producer: Jane Andrews
Mixed by: Rob Green
Editor: Tracy Williams -
Episode 5: The Children
Oscar winning screenwriter and activist Dustin Lance Black explores whether children born through surrogacy should have the right to know their surrogate mum and egg donor.
He shares his own journey to have a child with husband, Tom Daley.
Mixed by Rob Green
Producer: Jane Andrews
Editor: Tracy Williams -
Episode 4: The Law And The Legal Parent
Dustin Lance Black raises concerns about the current surrogacy laws in the UK.
He questions whether the existing UK surrogacy laws are fit for purpose and asks what needs to change to keep intended parents and surrogates safe.
He shares his own journey to become the legal parent of his son, with husband Tom Daley.
Producer: Jane Andrews
Mixed by: Rob Green
Editor: Tracy Williams -
Episode 3: The Surrogates
Dustin Lance Black talks to surrogates about why they decided to carry and give birth to a baby for someone else.
He also speaks to one of the world’s leading voices against surrogacy and shares his own journey to have a child, with his husband Tom Daley, through surrogacy.
Producer: Jane Andrews
Mixed by: Rob Green
Editor: Tracy Williams -
Episode 2: The Paths to Surrogacy
Dustin Lance Black examines the different paths to surrogacy intended parents can take in the UK and California.
Producer: Jane Andrews
Mixed by: Rob Green
Editor: Tracy Williams -
Episode 1: The Intended Parents
Dustin Lance Black speaks to gay and straight parents who’ve used surrogacy to build their family.
Producer: Jane Andrews
Mixed by: Rob Green
Editor: Tracy Williams
Customer Reviews
Insightful and interesting
Expertly produced - a must listen to understand families of the 21st century
Beautiful. Bloody beautiful.
Such a necessary podcast.
A well-researched and informative podcast
This is a brilliant and thought-provoking series about an emotional subject where opinion can sometimes be divided. Led with curiosity by film maker and new dad Dustin Lance Black, he leaves no stone unturned as we hear stories and opinions from all walks of life, both good and bad. From the intended parents to the surrogates; the surrogate children to the egg donors; via lawyers, doctors and politicians, as well as Lance’s own emotional journey to become a dad. This is a must-listen, whatever your experience or opinion may be.