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Introducing: The Immaculate Deception

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News, News & Politics

4.7650 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

This week we offer you a taste of something new... enjoy an extract from new podcast series The Immaculate Deception.


Fertility doctor Jan Karbaat was renowned for getting amazing results. Women who were desperate for children would visit him at his Rotterdam clinic and always leave pregnant. But when the clinic closed, rumours began about the methods Karbaat used to achieve his success. The children conceived at the clinic - the Karbaat Kids - began asking difficult questions about what happened to their mothers. 


What happened in Dr Karbaat’s clinic? From Somethin’ Else, The Immaculate Deception is a story about a doctor who was determined to create life - by any means possible. Reported and hosted by Jenny Kleeman. 


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0:00.0

Hi folks, something a bit different in your feed this week. Instead of an episode of the tip-off,

0:06.0

treat yourself to a clip from the new podcast, The Immaculate Deception. From something else,

0:12.3

this gripping new series tells the true and shocking story of a fertility doctor who used

0:17.9

his own sperm to inseminate his patients without them knowing.

0:22.8

Presented by the fantastic Jenny Clemen, the nine-part series tells the story of fertility

0:27.8

doctor Jan Karbat, who had an amazing track record of helping his patients get pregnant.

0:34.7

But the truth of how they became pregnant is a dark and twisted one. I'm loving

0:40.5

the series so far and there are new episodes coming out all the time. So take a listen to this

0:45.6

clip from the show as Jenny sets out to uncover just how deep the deception goes.

0:53.5

Something else. deception goes.

1:06.2

Let me introduce you to a new series from Something Else.

1:08.7

I'm Jenny Cleman.

1:18.5

I'm a journalist and for the past few months I've been trying to find out exactly what happened in the clinic of the renowned Dutch fertility doctor, Jan Carbat.

1:28.0

After his clinic's doors closed for good, there were whispers that some of his patients had been given a kind of help that they didn't ask for.

1:34.5

As the babies conceived there became adults, they began to ask questions about where they came from and what happened to their mothers at the clinic. The immaculate deception is the story of a doctor who was determined to create life by any means possible.

1:46.9

You're about to hear a preview of The Immaculate Deception, but before that, make sure you

1:52.1

subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you're listening now.

1:58.9

In 2017, Joey Hoofman and Marha Elvers both received life-changing news.

2:05.6

First, we'll hear from Joey, who found out that he had been conceived at the doctor's clinic.

2:11.6

I knew that there was something wrong.

2:15.6

Joey was reading the headlines about the clinic.

2:19.3

He'd seen that it was closed down in 2008.

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