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The Documentary Podcast

DNA and me

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Want to know who you really are? Take an at-home DNA test, just like over 26 million others have around the globe. But the question is: why? For many, it’s just a bit of fun; for others it might be for medical insight. But for everyone, it promises to tell you who you really are – and for many, those results might come as a surprise. For BBC reporter Sophia Smith Galer and her father, an innocent at-home kit led to a series of shocking discoveries about their family

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0:00.0

Where are we walking into now dad the graveyard of St John's in Loughton and there we are we can cut through the

0:13.0

cut through vicerick tree

0:16.0

So this is where the ashes of my mother and father

0:22.0

were placed. And here we are. My mother and farmer. All's with Gila Ron, a dear husband and dad.

0:35.0

And the words are,

0:37.0

to the world he was a man, to us, he was our world.

0:42.0

And then my mom, Margaret SmithCayler, a dear wife, mother and

0:45.6

name. Our world's reunited, gone, but memories live on. How does it feel coming here now compared to before? Does anything feel any different?

1:05.0

No different.

1:07.0

No different.

1:08.0

Why do you think it's no different?

1:11.0

No, because it isn't. I don't feel any different I just

1:14.3

this is my mom and dad and they brought me up for better or worse it is what it is.

1:24.0

My dad was a simple man.

1:26.0

He just basically lived for his kids.

1:29.0

He just, he went to work every day.

1:31.0

My mother was the driving force of the family, very strong woman, very

1:35.4

very strong woman and they were tough old girls in those days, certainly were and

1:47.6

some of her genes are running in UFiz and they certainly will get you through a few things I'm sure. Whatever is running through my genes is exactly what I'm here to talk about because a couple of years ago my dad took an at-home DNA test kit just like over 26 million other people around the world.

2:06.0

They've become regular Christmas and birthday presents and they promise a number of

2:10.8

fun self-realizations about your genetics, your health and where you really come from.

2:16.0

They can tell you anything from the mundane to the bazaar,

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