Donor 9623

About Donor 9623

DONOR 9623 When scores of aspiring parents turned to the fertility industry to start families, they chose a remarkable young man to be the biological father of their children. He was a music prodigy and gifted athlete who had a genius IQ, movie star looks, and perfect health. Except it was all a lie. In this tour de force of investigative reporting, host Dov Fox unravels the case of Donor 9623, examining the complex forces and competing agendas behind the biggest reproductive hoax of our time. The story is dark, propulsive - and in an unexpected turn - hopeful. This Audible Original exposes the billion-dollar industry that creates hundreds of thousands of babies every year, through unprecedented access to its key players - and to Donor 9623 himself. The 8-episode series raises hard questions about what we want when we set out to have kids - and what happens when we don’t get it. It places us in the grip of life lived with crushing uncertainty. And unsettles our deepest understanding of what it means to be human.

Publisher

Audible Originals

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Dec 2022

Latest episode

7 Dec 2022

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Dec 2022

   Episode 8

   Dov Fox finally sits down with the man at the center of it all.

2. 

   7 Dec 2022

   Episode 7

   Speaking to a cast of people who knew Donor 9623 during a fraught time, Dov Fox pieces together a timeline of the donor’s complicated past and multiple lives.

3. 

   7 Dec 2022

   Episode 6

   The investigation reaches a fever pitch as host Dov Fox unearths tapes of far-reaching conversations between Donor 9623 and the sperm bank’s greatest saleswoman.

4. 

   7 Dec 2022

   Episode 5

   When the families take legal action, courts must wrestle with fundamental questions about the genetics of disease, the value of human life, and what it means to love your child.

5. 

   7 Dec 2022

   Episode 4

   Assisted reproduction is big business in the United States.

6. 

   7 Dec 2022

   Episode 3

   Disturbing new details emerge from the moms’ quest for the truth. How could this deception go undetected for so long? And what did the sperm bank know? Its former CEO weighs in.

7. 

   7 Dec 2022

   Episode 2

   Moms around the world join forces to uncover the real identity of the anonymous man they all chose to have a child with, learning that scores of others out there used the same donor.

8. 

   7 Dec 2022

   Episode 1

   A family struggles with a troubled son, who makes a startling discovery about his biological father, opening up a world of deceit.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

19 ratings

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