DiscoverThe Gift1. Switched - Part 1
1. Switched - Part 1

1. Switched - Part 1

Update: 2024-11-02
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An at-home DNA test - taken by chance when a game of golf is rained off - forces one man and three women to reassess everything they thought they knew about their families.

It’s the perfect gift for the person who already has everything. It promises to tell you who you really are, and how you’re connected to the world. A present that will reveal your genetic past – but could also disrupt your future.

In the first series of The Gift, Jenny Kleeman looked at the extraordinary truths that can unravel when people take at-home DNA tests like Ancestry and 23andMe.

For the second series, Jenny is going deeper into the unintended consequences - the aftershocks - set in motion when people link up to the enormous global DNA database.

Reconnecting and rupturing families, uprooting identities, unearthing long-buried secrets - what happens after technology, genealogy and identity collide?

Presenter: Jenny Kleeman
Producer: Conor Garrett
Production Coordinator: Gill Huggett
Editor: Philip Sellars
Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

The Gift is a BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4

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Introducing The Gift

Introducing The Gift

2023-09-0403:03

1. Fraud

1. Fraud

2023-09-1128:21

2. Justice

2. Justice

2023-09-1829:05

3. Mistakes

3. Mistakes

2023-09-2529:17

4. Race

4. Race

2023-10-0229:32

5. Health

5. Health

2023-10-0928:03

6. Secrets

6. Secrets

2023-10-1629:00

Bonus Episode: Hacked

Bonus Episode: Hacked

2024-02-0828:53

1. Switched - Part 1

1. Switched - Part 1

2024-11-0228:38

2. Switched - Part 2

2. Switched - Part 2

2024-11-0229:25

3. Sold

3. Sold

2024-11-0428:33

4. Taboo

4. Taboo

2024-11-0428:35

5. Donor

5. Donor

2024-11-0428:39

6. Superdonor

6. Superdonor

2024-11-0429:49

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1. Switched - Part 1

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