2021-04-28
So intriguing
Amazingly put together podcast and well presented. Every episode had me so eager to listen to the next.
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Fertility doctor Jan Karbaat was renowned for getting amazing results. Women who were desperate for children would visit him at his Rotterdam clinic and 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.
This is a Somethin' Else production.
Apple Podcasts: Customer Reviews
2021-02-26
GREAT podcast
So well researched and presented. The difference in empathy and approach to journalism in comparison to similar American ones is stark.
2021-01-24
Really well done and interesting
Loved this podcast, really well researched and presented. Shocking story, definitely worth a listen!
2020-11-06
Amazing story
An extraordinary story ,sensitively told. Very moving
2020-08-25
Fascinating and sensitively handled
This is a truly fascinating and sensitively handled series
2020-08-24
Fascinating
Brilliant podcast that I couldn’t stop listening to, I kept having to remind myself this was a real story!
2020-07-28
Excellent series
Compulsive listening, an appalling situation dealt with sensitively.
Question; why was money never mentioned at any point, either amounts paid to donors or fees charged to patients?
2020-07-18
Gripping and educational storytelling
This podcast was such a powerful piece of storytelling. The investigative angle and immersive storytelling was so powerful. I really respected the depth the team have gone to whilst also maintaining an admirable level of sensitivity. Great work. Such an important story to tell. Women and couples generally need to be more aware of things like this so we can be more informed about how to spot best and improper practise. The interviewees deserve respect for their openness, honesty and humour. Thanking you all.
2020-07-14
Wonderful gripping heart-wrenching podcast
Excellently produced with great reporting, I love the honesty from Jenny about the process. Fantastic!
2020-06-30
Wowzers....😮
First podcast I have ever listened to, absolutely brilliantly portrayed I was gripped. My heart goes out to those families. Xx
2020-06-24
Super intriguing podcast
Listened to this when running. Unbelievable this could really happen and feel for those affected. Brilliant journalism and narrator.
2020-06-14
Great Podcast
Really well done! Very well put together and listenable, super interesting.
2020-05-25
SO good
Really gripping. Just my thing. Got my dad hooked when he heard me listening to the last episode, he had to go back and listen to it himself!
2020-05-07
Excellent
Not my usual podcast fare, but this is an absorbing, fascinating and disturbing tale that is well researched and presented in a compassionate and thoughtful manner. And great sound design. Well done guys.
2020-05-07
Fascinating
The story is fascinating, but the way it is edited and executed is more manipulative than I care for.
2020-05-02
Poorly organised
This series is interesting, but is very disorganised and lacks any real journey or development other than “isn’t it awful this happened?” (Which, of course, it is).
2020-05-01
Excellent
A gem of a podcast, well researched. What an insane situation. Can’t wait to binge the rest.
2020-04-30
Mind blowing
What a story, emotional and eye opening, great journalism and production.
2020-04-25
Immaculate discretion
Wonderful pod cast so well put together and read. Thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted it to go on forever. Well done to you all.
2020-04-22
Fascinating
As someone who is struggling with infertility and pursuing the egg donation route to parenthood, this podcast has been absolutely fascinating to listen to. So well put together and such an important subject.
2020-04-15
Fascinating and emotional
I am real drawn into this documentary on a subject I had known nothing about , some of the interviews are heart rending. The production team seem empathetic in their pursuit of the story
2020-04-15
Horrendous story, not done justice by this podcast
This podcast might have worked better had people been interviewed in their mother tongue; this might have added depth and clarity to people’s stories, too — too often I get the impression that the extent of their experiences and the complexity of their feelings and emotions aren’t really coming out in the interviews because they lack the vocabulary to express themselves in English with any great depth.
Particularly the interview with the mother is excruciating in that respect: it sounds like she has a lot to say, but between her and her husband’s broken English, all that comes out is that she was “misused” in childhood and then “misused” by the fertility doctor, followed by an English interviewer who assumes the woman might have felt abused. The rest of the episode is the mother speaking in a mostly incomprehensible mix of languages; she speaks a lot, but I don’t understand what she’s trying to say.
That’s not her fault, it’s the English podcast producers not doing the poor woman any justice here.
I really think this horrific story should have been approached in the way This American Life does with guests whose mother tongue isn’t English, or Deutschlandfunk Einhundert does with guests for whom German isn’t the native language: focus on the people and their stories by interviewing them in their own language, then have the narrator give the translation. This would have provided guests and listeners with more dignity, depth and clarity.
The fact that this podcast does the reverse is, in my opinion, an injustice.
The producers should have been there to serve and accommodate the people – most of them victims – at the heart of this story, but appear to have done the opposite.
This feels wrong, exploitative even, and results in a podcast more shallow than it should have been, that’s at times hard to follow.
2020-04-12
Fascinating!!
Has made me gasp out loud on more than one occasion during this series , powerful story !
2020-04-04
Compelling
This is a strange and extraordinary story, and the podcast is very well produced. It’s much more than a crime drama: fascinating questions arise about ethics and the relationship between people and their parentage.
2020-04-02
Mr
What a strange story - really interesting so far. Highlights a lot of ethical questions related to these clinics
2020-04-01
The Music!!!
Excellent series, thatbackground music. Ugh.
2020-04-01
Immaculate Deception
Interesting. Shocking. Emotional.
2020-03-28
Ep 3?
So interesting, something I had read at the time, but really enjoyed call the detail. When is episode 3?
2020-03-24
wow
need to hear episode 2 as soon as possible.
2020-03-20
Deception!
Loving ep 1, True Crime isn’t usually my thing but looking forward to binging this over the next 12 weeks!