# Can anybody identify this podcast episode?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-identify-this-podcast-episode/817543
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 9, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-identify-this-podcast-episode/817543 "2018-07-09T01:51:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-identify-this-podcast-episode/817543/1 "2018-07-09T01:51:24Z")
Earlier today, I was listening to NPR One when they started playing a podcast story about an anonymous sperm donor who met his daughter. The story was quite interesting, but I accidentally skipped it without learning the name of the specific program. All I have to identify it is the fact that, at one point, the father & daughter were listening to Ewen McGregor seeing “Your Song” from MULAN ROUGE and both started crying. Anybody catch this podcast episode?
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-identify-this-podcast-episode/817543/2 "2018-07-09T02:56:02Z")
An old radiolab episode, maybe?
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-identify-this-podcast-episode/817543/3 "2018-07-09T03:10:55Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> An old radiolab episode, maybe?
No. I know that show quite well and am subscribed to the podcast; its style is distinctive enough that I would have immediately recognized it even if someone else were doing the narration.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-identify-this-podcast-episode/817543/4 "2018-07-09T04:20:20Z")
How were you listening?
Radio?
If so, contact the station (or maybe just look on their website) and you should be able to find the show and it’s episode.
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-identify-this-podcast-episode/817543/5 "2018-07-09T05:35:11Z")
> [@beowulff](#):
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> How were you listening?
> Radio?
> If so, contact the station (or maybe just look on their website) and you should be able to find the show and it’s episode.
I was listening to NPR One, an iPhone app. It streams NPR programs. Sometimes a new program will come up randomly, which is what happened Sunday morning.
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### Author:  [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-identify-this-podcast-episode/817543/6 "2019-01-03T18:49:02Z")
Skald the Rhymer,
It doesn’t look like this was ever solved, but I did note that the BBC has an interesting article about something similar today:
> **[I met my boyfriend 12 years after giving birth to his child](https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-46427960)**
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> When Jessica Share bought sperm from an anonymous man to start a family, she never imagined she would ever meet the donor, never mind fall in love.
but it also references an earlier NY Times article from the donor’s perspective in case it wasn’t an audio story.