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Do the media think only the wealthy have the right to reproduce?

On Saturday night I recorded an interview about my experiences as a sperm donor for the Stephen Nolan show on BBC Radio 5 Live, and it was broadcast a few hours ago.  It can be listened to on catch-up at this link from about 39 minutes onwards.  (I don't really sound like Darth Vader's sinister Scottish cousin, by the way - they heavily disguised my voice at my own request, just in case anyone I know in real life happened to be casually listening in.)  I think Stephen Nolan felt at a few points that I was becoming unreasonably impatient with him - he kept saying "this is not an aggressive interview!", although to a hardened political interrogator such as himself, a non-aggressive interview is probably just one from which the interviewee emerges alive.  Oddly enough, the question that slightly exasperated me was completely left-field - it wasn't about the ethics of natural insemination, or the risk of accidental incest, or any of the other all-too-familiar objecti