Surrogacy: A Family Frontier Podcast
Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and activist, explores attitudes towards surrogacy. He shares his own journey to have a child.
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 91Èȱ¬ Radio 5 Live.
Episodes to download
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Episode 6: Gay Dads
Thu 20 Dec 2018
Dustin Lance Black explores attitudes towards gay parents and surrogacy.
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Episode 5: The Children
Thu 20 Dec 2018
Children born through surrogacy on the right to know their genetic history.
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Episode 4: The Law And The Legal Parent
Thu 13 Dec 2018
Dustin Lance Black raises concerns about the current surrogacy laws in the UK.
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Episode 3: The Surrogates
Thu 13 Dec 2018
Dustin Lance Black meets the surrogates, and hears arguments against surrogacy.
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Episode 2: The Paths to Surrogacy
Thu 6 Dec 2018
Lance examines the different paths to surrogacy in the UK and California.
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Episode 1: The Intended Parents
Thu 6 Dec 2018
Dustin Lance Black meets gay and straight parents who’ve used surrogacy to build families
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Welcome to Surrogacy: A Family Frontier
Wed 5 Dec 2018
Dustin Lance Black shares his journey to parenthood via surrogacy with husband Tom Daley