The New World Of Reproduction

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Krupa Padhy examines where we have got to after 40 years of IVF. In England, she visits a family made up of white British parents and their three boys, plus a ‘snow baby’: created during an IVF cycle for her Indian-American genetic parents, but adopted as an embryo by her birth family. She hears from ethicists and law makers from around the world about how countries have struggled to adapt to new technological realities, and discovers stories that challenge ideas of what IVF is for, like that of an Indian woman who used her dead son’s sperm to create grandchildren.

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0:00.0	Forget the birds and the bees, making babies in 2018 is as much about dry ice and expedited
0:14.1	delivery.
0:15.1	We have magazines, we have a screen, but movies, then they can just make them so comfortable.
0:20.9	So the essentials there?
0:22.6	Yeah.
0:23.6	Lab Technician Martin is giving me a tour around the world's biggest sperm bank, Cryos International
0:29.5	in Arles, Denmark.
0:31.1	Log in to our system.
0:33.0	He's just shown me the donor cabin.
0:35.1	Here's what happens once that sperm sample is collected.
0:37.9	Then we freeze it.
0:39.3	We are slowly lowering the straws into liquid nitrogen.
0:43.0	The samples could stay in there for weeks, for months, for years.
0:47.0	Yeah, forever.
0:49.6	It looks like a big tank, do you pull out a straw, then look like plastic drinking straws
0:54.5	to put it crudely, and how many samples do you think are in here?
0:58.6	Maybe like 40,000 in this one.
1:01.9	I'm Kruppa Party, and for part one of the changing face of procreation on the BBC World
1:06.6	Service, I'm exploring the world of assisted reproductive technology.
1:14.9	Cryosaur began, so the story goes, in 1981 with a dream about sperm.
1:24.7	In it, the then 27-year-old founder of the Cryos sperm bank, Oleshu, saw hundreds of
1:30.1	frozen sperm trapped in the waves of the sea.
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