Commenter Profile
- Dmae Lo Roberts
- Username: dmaeroberts
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Joined PRX: Oct 02, 2003
Piece Information
- "Babyquest"
- Summary: Babyquest is the story of a single woman in her mid-40s that has been trying for two years to get pregnant using a variety of methods. Team Long Haul follows Suzanne through her last invitro fertilization attempt – her last chance to have her own biological child – and documents the story of how she got to this point.
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Review of Babyquest
Dmae Lo Roberts
Posted on October 01, 2004 at 01:28 PM
Great interview. Great subject. The documentary elements flow nicely together with the trips to the fertility clinic, interviews with the woman's mom and scenes with the sperm donor friend. (Language advisory: Masterbating) This is a timely and worthy profile of an often heartbreaking phenomenon unique to baby-boom age women who waited to have babies. The main interviewee acts an engaging narrator--honest, articulate and speaking for a whole generation. I liked this piece a lot except for most of the music transitions. I would lose much of the music and only use it when needed. I liked the ending music though it cut out rather than fading out. This ran on NPR so of course it would work well on any magazine show. Fertility is certainly a topic that most listeners would relate to and should be heard. Good work.