Press Kit 3 X 1 Hour Popular Science Documentaries

Press Kit 3 x 1 hour Popular Science Documentaries

Series Producer: Peter Rees Episode Directors: Ili Baré, Anna Bateman & Peter Rees Executive Producers: Sonya Pemberton & Michael Cordell

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED Press Kit

CONTENTS

Tales of the Unexpected – Synopsis

I. Series synopsis - one line II. Series synopsis - one paragraph III. Episode synopses – one line & one paragraph

Media Release

Series Producer’s Statement and Biography

Executive Producer’s Statement and Biography

Contacts

Episode 1 – The Secret Life of Breasts

I. Director’s Statement II. The characters III. The experts IV. Credits

Episode 2 –Secrets of The Hand

I. Director’s Statement II. The characters III. The experts IV. Credits

Episode 3 - Who’s Your Daddy?

I. Director’s Statement II. The characters III. The experts IV. Credits

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

SERIES SYNOPSIS: one line

Palm-reading doctors, the evolutionary benefits of cheating, and toxic breasts – Tales of the Unexpected is an exciting new series of documentaries that shines its light into some of the stranger corners of science.

SERIES SYNOPSIS: one paragraph

Tales Of The Unexpected is a new strand of provocative, confronting and thoroughly entertaining science documentaries. Each episode reveals a fascinating, sometimes awkward, and frequently unsettling world where peculiar ideas are put to the test. Come with us to where nothing is quite as it seems, where diseases are diagnosed by palm- readers, where paternity uncertainty drives the mating game, and where breasts are a toxic health hazard.

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

EPISODE SYNOPSES

Episode 1 - The Secret Life of Breasts

One line

Laying breasts bare in the name of science.

One paragraph

New science is revealing breasts in a way that we’ve never seen them before. For years we’ve been seeking perfection. Gradually we are beginning to understand the wondrous biochemistry and evolution of the breast. But now some scientists believe breasts may be a hidden toxic waste ground, living time-bombs that might endanger not only their owners – but also those who suckle at them. Putting actual breast tissue - and breast milk - to the test we investigate if these wonderful life-giving organs are under threat from the modern world, and, if so, what we can do to save them.

Episode 2 – Secrets of The Hand

One line

The real science of palm reading.

One paragraph

For thousands of years, in fairgrounds and temples, palm readers have claimed our hands encode valuable information. Is this just superstition? Or is there, buried beneath the theatre and the cliches, a core of solid scientific evidence for palm-reading’s predictive powers? Can our hands really tell us anything about our past, our present, or our future? For the first time on television, palm- reading is put to the test.

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

Episode 3 – Who’s Your Daddy?

One line

Now there’s nowhere to hide your genes.

One paragraph

One in three children, claim many tabloids, may not be biologically related to the man they call Dad. Could this really be true? This program conducts the first ever purpose-designed paternity poll, asking some truly awkward questions. Comparing rates of paternity uncertainty in Australia and the Untied States, we ask what is the real rate of ‘non-paternity’, and might there be biological survival benefits for children born outside marriage? Following parents and children as they seek to uncover the truth, we discover how, today, there’s nowhere to hide your genes.

MEDIA RELEASE

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED: NEW SCIENCE DOCS WILL SHOCK AND SURPRISE

Tales of the Unexpected – the reference to Roald Dahl is deliberate – brings together an extraordinary team of scientists, writers, directors and producers to create three fascinating hour-long documentaries guaranteed to set the water cooler corner abuzz.

Each documentary sets out to investigate a contentious area of science, through a combination of real-life stories, expert research, and unique experiments. The result is a trio of very different programs that provide remarkable insights into the lives of everyday people as they discover what hard evidence can tell them about their hopes and their fears.

Are your breasts trying to kill you? That’s the startling question at the centre of the first episode of Tales of the Unexpected, The Secret Life of Breasts. The program investigates recent claims that human breasts function as storehouses for toxic chemicals, such as pesticides, flame retardants and plasticisers. Is the claim true, and, if so, how does it affect our health – and the health of breast-feeding babies?

With preventative mastectomies becoming more common following the example set by Angelina Jolie, we meet an Australian woman undergoing the radical procedure. In a world first, she donates her breast tissue for a ‘living autopsy’, to discover just which toxins, if any, it contains. Meanwhile, breast-feeding mothers have their milk tested to determine just what their newborns are swallowing.

The results will astound and disturb in equal measure. The Secret Life of Breasts also investigates other disturbing evidence – children growing breasts, men growing breasts – and asks: are breasts our bellwether organs? And do we ignore their health at our peril?

Episode Two, Secrets of the Hand, looks at the fairground fakir’s favourite, palm-reading. It asks: is there genuine science hidden beneath the fortune-teller’s patter?

The answer will surprise you. For the first time ever, the program tests the powers of observation and diagnosis of an international collection of doctors, geneticists, anatomists, and palm-readers.

Do the lines and shapes of the human hand encode genetic information, signal illness, and perhaps even foretell mortality? Tales of the Unexpected: Secrets of the Hand will challenge the superstitious and the skeptics alike.

Episode Three, Who’s Your Daddy? sets a course straight for the heart of the profoundly uncomfortable subject of disputed paternity, and asks: does evolution favour bastards?

The program drills down into the persistent tabloid claim that as many as one-in-three kids are not genetically related to the man they call father. It follows the sometimes heart-wrenching journeys of men, women and children as they use powerful new forms of genetic testing to answer critical questions about their origins.

Gathering new evidence from DNA analysis and the world’s first women-only anonymised survey of sexual habits, Who’s Your Daddy? uncovers as never before the real rate of cuckoldry in western society, and asks the dangerous question: are we genetically programmed to cheat?

Tales of the Unexpected is the product of a remarkable collaboration between some of Australia’s finest and most distinguished science television talents.

Series producer Peter Rees has spent 20 years making incredible television. He is best known as the man who created the most successful science series in history: Mythbusters.

Executive producer Sonya Pemberton is one of the world’s most distinguished makers of science documentaries. Her most recent program, Jabbed – Love, Fear and Vaccines, broke all broadcaster records when it aired on SBS in 2013. Her 2011 documentary, Immortal, won many international awards, including the 2013 Emmy for Outstanding Science Programming.

The other executive producer, Michael Cordell, heads up Australia’s largest independently owned television production house, Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder (CJZ). As well as award-winning science programs, CJZ makes internationally recognised shows across all genres, including documentary, reality, comedy, and drama.

Tales of the Unexpected also boasts the talents of several of Australia’s most accomplished writers, directors, camera operators, editors and composers.

A fresh new approach to science television, Tales of the Unexpected presents compelling and entertaining viewing for young and old. In Australia the series will air on SBS-TV, while in the US it will be shown on the prestigious Smithsonian Network. Roald Dahl would have loved it.

SERIES PRODUCER’S STATEMENT

Tales of the Unexpected was designed as a destination strand for remarkable - and often strange - stories of science. Each episode is a self-contained popular documentary, framed around pivotal moments of scientific surprise. The effect is to keep you on your toes, focusing attention, triggering debate.

Real and powerful human stories lie at the core of each hour: remarkable narratives are the primary emotional drivers.

The science is topical and far-reaching, thoroughly researched and clearly presented. Pseudo- science is busted, even as the windier shores are explored. The underlying context is to see scientific enquiry in process, and to encourage rational, critical thought.

Key aspects of the central premise are put to the test in each episode. This experiential element is a hallmark of the strand, and a legacy of my experience as creator of the hit science series, Mythbusters.

Tales of the Unexpected has been a curious challenge – blending popular science with sensitive and complex subjects is no easy task! We’ve made some interesting discoveries and hopefully opened curious areas for debate and conversation.

A key challenge of this series included trying to find people to volunteer for our scientific experiments and who would be willing to open their lives to public scrutiny - and be open to answers that could change their lives.

I hope that the audience is as moved as I have been by the stories in this series, and compelled by the curious content and unusual science we put to the test.

Peter Rees, Series Producer ‘Tales of the Unexpected’ also director of Episode Two – Who’s Your Daddy

Peter Rees has more than twenty years in the television business working in all aspects of production and post-production. Between 2002 and 2006 Peter created, directed and executive produced the international hit science series Mythbusters. He guided the show through 82 episodes establishing all ratings records. For five years Peter was based in the United States where he worked for National Geographic Television and Discovery Communications. He is now based in Sydney, Australia creating reality and entertainment programs with Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER’S STATEMENT

Over the years I, like most producers, have squirreled away many wonderful, untold, strange stories of science … stories I like to tell at dinner parties, to surprise those who are not fans of science. To watch as people say, ‘surely not!’ is a joy. They always want to know more.

Tales of the Unexpected was designed as a curious, provocative place to house such stories. The title is a deliberate play on Roald Dahl’s children’s drama series of the same name, made in the 1980s. This too was a series of curious stories with surprising twists and turns. Our hope is that it will help attract those who are curious, but perhaps not automatically drawn to ‘traditional science’ programming.

The approach of Tales Of The Unexpected is contemporary, counter-intuitive and at times controversial. The series present subjects sometimes considered closed, (palm-reading) or deeply controversial (toxic breasts), or a product of the interesting times we live in (paternity testing) and seeks to separate the science from the snake oil.

Series Producer Peter Rees, creator of Mythbusters, was the primary force behind making the idea a reality. He was tasked with the challenge of blending a popular science television approach with the rigour and integrity of the traditional science documentary form. The intention is to provide both amusement and illumination, in an engaging and thoughtful manner.

Sonya Pemberton, Executive Producer ‘Tales of the Unexpected’

2012 Emmy award winner and three-time winner of the prestigious Eureka Award for Science Journalism, Sonya’s passion is quality science programming. Sonya Pemberton is one of Australia’s leading factual television producers specialising in science. She has written, directed and produced over 50 hours of broadcast documentary, and executive produced many award-winning factual series and one-off programs. Sonya was Head of Specialist Factual at ABC Television from 2004 to 2007, where she commissioned more than 300 hours of factual television. Her understanding of audiences’ desire for smart, accessible TV saw ratings rise across the genres. Over the past decade Sonya’s science programs have won more than 30 major international awards, and she has been three times honoured with the prestigious Eureka Prize for Science Journalism (2003, 2004, 2008). In 2011, her film ‘Immortal’ won her the Australian Health Journalist of the Year award. The film won Best Science at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and, in 2012, US News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Science Programming. In 2011 she joined forces with Australia’s largest Independent production company, Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder (CJZ), to create Genepool Productions – Australia’s first television production company focusing on quality science programming. Genepool’s first documentary ’Jabbed – love, fear and vaccines’ broke broadcaster records on SBS 1 in 2013.

Executive Producer: Michael Cordell

Michael Cordell is one of Australia’s most established producers, a founding partner of Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder (CJZ), a recent merger of Cordell Jigsaw Productions and Zapruder’s Other Films (founded by Andrew Denton), the two leading Australian television production companies. CJZ is now Australia’s largest independently owned producer specialising in original content across all genres. In 2011 CJZ combined forces with acclaimed science specialist Sonya Pemberton to create a new joint venture, Genepool Productions.

Script Consultant: Andrew Masterson.

A highly experienced journalist and author, Andrew Masterson combines the research skill of the former with the narrative drive of the latter. Andrew has written extensively for major Australian newspapers, science magazines and communication agencies. He has twice won the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction, and was nominated for an Aurealis Award for science fiction. He was co- writer for the successful international documentary series, ‘Cook: Obsession and Discovery’ (December Films).

Animation Direction & Design: Dom Bartolo

As Creative Director of 21-19, Dom Bartolo has been the creative force behind many television brands in Europe and Australia, successfully branding channels through moving image design such as VH2, MTV, TV1, Max, Lifestyle, Smash Hits, Disney XD, Discovery, ABC, Fox Sports, and The Comedy Channel. His art direction and design has recently expanded into film, including the Emmy Award winning Australian documentary; Immortal, directed by Sonya Pemberton. 21-19’s extensive team boasts experience across a broad range of disciplines, allowing them to be uniquely positioned to help build strong stories that can be translated across a range of visual media.

CONTACT DETAILS

Sales: Cordell Jigsaw Distribution (e) [email protected]

Media: SBS Publicity Department

Genepool Productions (e) [email protected]

CJZ Publicity (e) [email protected]

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED - EPISODE ONE

The Secret Life of Breasts

Laying breasts bare in the name of science.

New science is revealing breasts in a way that we’ve never seen them before. For years we’ve been seeking perfection: shape, size, and food source for our bubs. And gradually we are beginning to understand the wondrous biochemistry and evolution of the breast. But now some scientists believe breasts may also be a hidden toxic waste ground, living time-bombs that might endanger not only their owners – but also those who suckle at them. Putting actual breast tissue - and breast milk - to the test, we investigate if these wonderful life-giving organs are under threat from the modern world, and if so, what we can do to save them.

Writer/Director- Ili Baré

Series Producer – Peter Rees

The Secret Life of Breasts Director’s Statement

This documentary was the brainchild of Executive Producer Sonya Pemberton, and I was thrilled when she approached me with the idea of directing it. Sonya had initially been intrigued by work that suggested that breasts, as the fattiest organ in the female body, might actually attract fat- loving man-made toxins. Could this in part explain why girls are developing breasts earlier, as well as the prevalence of breast cancer? And could some of these toxins even be polluting breast milk?

We decided to follow a group of scientists who were testing women’s breast milk for toxins, as well as a mastectomy patient who donated her breast tissue to science for testing. All of this would tell us whether breasts are, in fact, storing environmental toxins found in everyday life.

The challenge was in conveying the scientists’ results. If breast milk was shown to be rich in pesticides, for instance, would this put women off breast-feeding, a practice health officials are trying desperately to encourage? And if our mastectomy patient’s breast tissue was found to contain flame-retardants, would this spark unnecessary fears about breast cancer?

Through detailed consultation with various experts, we were mindful of the importance of conveying the test results without being alarmist, as well as celebrating the miraculous properties of breast milk. Scientists are still working out just what health effects, if any, the man-made toxins they are finding in breasts may have. However, the fact that they are there is something of which we should all be aware.

With such delicate subject matter, it was tough trying to find some of our participants – a girl who was willing to talk about her experience of early puberty on camera for instance; a man who was happy to show us his ‘man boobs’; a woman who would allow us to film her mastectomy and then test her breast tissue for toxins. Fortunately, I was blessed with a fantastic and resourceful team, and together we found some wonderful participants who were more than happy to share their stories. The scientists with whom we were working so closely with were extremely accommodating, balancing the timelines of their research against our production schedule, which was often very tricky.

Talking with our participants alongside scientists who are eminent in their field taught me a lot. I learnt that almost every one of us carries some kind of man-made chemical load in our bodies. I also learnt a hell of a lot about breasts!

I would hope that viewers would come away with a heightened awareness that what we put in our environment changes not only the world around us, but our own bodies at the cellular level … and I’d also hope that viewers would take away a new appreciation of breasts. Which is a great topic to discuss for anyone who has breasts or loves them!

Ili Baré, Director ‘ The Secret Life of Breasts’

Ili Baré is an award-winning director who has worked on over 50 hours of documentary and factual programming in the US, the UK and Australia. Her work has been variously reviewed as 'extraordinary … powerful and potent, a real emotional revelation'; 'brave and essential viewing' and 'unforgettable'. Her one-off documentary The Silent Epidemic, won an ATOM award and the Mental Health Media Achievement Award in 2011. She was a finalist in the 2010 Australian Directors' Guild Awards for her work on Are You My Mother?, and she has also been nominated for the UN Media Peace Award and the prestigious Eureka Prize for Science Communication and Journalism. Ili is currently working on her first independent project – a documentary about teenage girls in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The Secret Life of Breasts Characters

Antigone (Tiggy) Foster:

Antigone Foster has come to motherhood after a decade in the music biz as an international singer/songwriter/performer, and master of many other trades to boot. Like many women who come to reproduce in their mid-thirties, she has turned parenthood into her latest career move, dedicating herself fully to caring for her three year-old Juniper and eight month-old Tycho, with unpredictable consequences! Antigone is a dedicated breast- feeder, feeding her first until she was 17 months, and is planning to nurse her son for a similar length of time.

Leander Collins

Leander is a 49 year-old mother of three from the north coast of NSW. Leander was recently diagnosed with lobular carcinoma in situ, an abnormal cell growth that increases a person’s risk of developing invasive breast cancer later on in life. After seeking medical advice and weighing up all the contributing factors in her situation, Leander decided to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

In August 2013, Leander was operated on by Professor Phil Crowe and Dr Pouria Moradi at the Prince of Wales Private Hospital.

Joe Moda: Gynecomastia Man

Joe Moda is a 43 year-old man who grew up thinking that his two older sisters were “the ones who should have the tits!”. For as long as he can remember, Joe has had “moobs”. As a boy he felt embarrassed and was labelled “girly”. He was called nasty names such as “bitch tits Moda”. As an adult male, he felt embarrassed – he’s had relationships in the past, but often struggled with intimacy.

The Secret Life of Breasts Experts

Florence Williams: Author

Florence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside magazine and a freelance writer for New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slate, Mother Jones, High Country News, O-Oprah, W., Bicycling and numerous other publications. Recently she was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado’s Journalism School.

Her work often focuses on the environment, health and science. In 2007-2008, she was a Scripps Fellow at the Center of Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. She has received many awards, including six magazine awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the John Hersey Prize at Yale. Her work has been anthologised in numerous books, including Outside 25, the New Montana Story, How the West Was Warmed and Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008.

Her first book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and technology and the 2013 Audie in general nonfiction. It was also named a notable book of 2012 by the New York Times. She serves on the board of her favourite non-profit, High Country News, and lives with her family in Washington, D.C.

http://florencewilliams.wordpress.com/bio/

Professor David Newburg Ph.D., Boston University Biochemistry (Neuroscience, Nutrition)

Dr. David Newburg is a professor in the biology department at Boston College and director of the Program in Glycobiology. He is an internationally recognised expert in human milk biochemistry and physiology. Dr. Newburg’s research has discovered many unique molecules of human milk, especially glycans (those whose structures contain complex carbohydrate moieties), and determined their function. Results from his international research program have been published in many top scientific journals. He is the editor of the book ‘Bioactive Components of Human Milk’. His research program on milk glycans has been generously supported without interruption by the National Institutes of Health since 1984.

Professor Newburg continues to serve on NIH study sections, evaluates research papers for their suitability for publication for many scientific journals, and is on editorial boards for journals, including Breastfeeding Medicine. Dr. Newburg is on the Board of Directors of the Mothers' Milk Bank of New England, and is often an invited speaker at national and international scientific conferences.

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/biology/facadmin/newburg.html

Dr Linda Birnbaum: Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Linda S. Birnbaum, PhD, became the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) in January 2009. In these roles Birnbaum oversees federal funding for biomedical research to discover how the environment influences human health and disease.

Dr Birnbaum is the first toxicologist and the first woman to lead the NIEHS/NTP. She has spent most of her career as a federal scientist. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including being elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, in October 2010, one of the highest honours in the fields of medicine and health.

Dr Birnbaum’s own research and many of her publications focus on the pharmacokinetic behavior of environmental chemicals; mechanisms of actions of toxicants, including endocrine disruption; and linking of real-world exposures to health effects.

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/od/director/

Dr Diana Zuckerman: The National Research Center for Women & Families

Dr Zuckerman received her PhD in psychology from Ohio State University and was a post-doctoral fellow in epidemiology and public health at Yale Medical School.

After a post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology and public health at Yale Medical School, she went to Harvard to direct a groundbreaking research study of college students. Dr. Zuckerman left her academic career in 1983, to come to Washington, D.C. as a Congressional Science Fellow in the program run by the American Association of the Advancement of Science.

In 1995, Dr. Zuckerman served as a senior policy advisor in the White House, working for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

She is currently on the Board of Directors of two non-profit organisations, the Congressionally mandated Reagan Udall Foundation and the Alliance for a Stronger FDA.

Dr. Zuckerman is the author of five books, several book chapters, and dozens of articles in medical and academic journals, and in newspapers across the country. Her policy work has resulted in news coverage on all the major TV networks.

http://center4research.org/about-us/key-staff/

Professor Peter Sly: Deputy Director, Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute.

Professor Peter Sly is recognized internationally in the area of children’s environmental health. He currently directs the Children’s Health and Environment Program at QCMRI, The University of Queensland; is on the Advisory Board for a long standing WHO – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Collaborative Agreement; is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health; and is an advisor to the WHO, Public Health and Environment Section. Professor Peter Sly is a NH&MRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and a paediatric respiratory physician with extensive research experience in respiratory physiology.

http://www.qcmri.org.au/About/QCMRIExecutive.aspx http://www.aidrc.org.au/peter-sly

CREDITS – The Secret Life of Breasts

Series Producer Scientific Consultant PETER REES PROFESSOR PHILIP BATTERHAM ALICE KLEIN Director ILI BARÉ Stock Footage & Stills ITN Editor CRITICAL PASS THOM CORCORAN GETTY

Additional Editing Production Managers ANDREW COOKE SELINA FORBES

Associate Producer Additional Production Managers CAROLINE PEGRAM PRASAN DE SILVA GEORGIE LEWIN COLLEEN HANNAH JOSEPHINE WRIGHT Production Coordinator Camera ADELINE GIBSON GLENN HANNS Production Assistant Sound Recordist EMMA VICKERY DANIEL MIAU Production Accountants Script Consultant BRONWYN SPEZIALE ANDREW MASTERSON CAROL RAMIREZ

Narrator Business Affairs RACHAEL BLAKE KATHERINE SHORTLAND

Music Production Supervisor CHARLIE CHAN MUSIC ELOISE WILLIAMS

Additional Music Head of Production “STOMPIN” COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY JESSE TONI MALONE LETHBRIDGE

Graphics SBS Commissioning Editor DOMINIC BARTOLO JOSEPH MAXWELL 21:19

Audio Mix FOR SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL TRACKS POST Vice President of Production Management Colourist ADDIE MORAY TRISTAN LA FONTAINE Executive Producer Online Editor JOY GALANE MICAH RIX-HAYES

Executive Producer GENEPOOL PRODUCTIONS TIM EVANS SMITHSONIAN NETWORK Vice President of Development CHRIS HOELZL Produced In Association with SBS

Dr. Ralph Bright, Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Professor Philip Crowe, Professor Susan Davis, Dr. Pouria Moradi, Professor Jochen Mueller, Professor David Newberg, Associate Professor Richard Payne, Dr. Anna Rotanda, Associate Professor Elizabeth Salisbury, Professor Peter Sly, Professor Kathy Tucker, Naomi Bar-Yam, Dr. Diana Zuckerman

Clera Babaya, Kat Campbell, Jen Allison & Beatrix Chamberlain, Helen & Brody Brind, Leander Collins, Lolomi, Cassius, and Delilah Collins, Jessica & Henry Donovan, Suzanna Elliott-Newth, Antigone Foster & Tycho Shave, Sarah & Thomas Fennell, Samantha & Declan Furniss, Kayla & Adriane Haye, Taryn Ireland, Abid Jumane, Imogen Kelly, Jessica & Sierra Korenic, Peter Lovely Gitish & Aiya Misagh, Joe Modafferi, Stephen Prowser, Cristine Rara, Carol Rashleigh, Lauren Salmon & Zane Lee, Valeh & Jayda Sedghi, Vanessa & Tochukwu Smtih, Wendy Spenser, Emma Stewart

Bendon Bras, Byron Bay Community Markets, Macquarie Cosmetic Medicine, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA), National Research Center for Women & Families (USA), National Research Center for Environmental Toxicology, University of Queensland, Pink Hope, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Terry White Chemists, Think 24 hour Fitness

Author of 'Breasts: a natural and unnatural history': Florence Williams

Executive Producers SONYA PEMBERTON & MICHAEL CORDELL

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED - EPISODE TWO

Secrets of the Hand

The real science of palm reading.

For thousands of years, in fairgrounds and temples, palm-readers have claimed our hands encode valuable information. Is this just superstition? Or is there, buried beneath the theatre and the clichés, a core of solid scientific evidence for palm-reading’s predictive powers? Can our hands really tell us anything about our past, our present, or our future? For the first time on television, palm-reading is put to the test.

Writer/Director- Anna Bateman

Series Producer – Peter Rees

Secrets of the Hand Director’s Statement

The idea for this documentary emerged over ten years ago when executive producer Sonya Pemberton came across a curious collaboration between an eminent neurologist and a self- described ‘Hand Analyst’, both of whom where using the markings on the hand to diagnose illness. Further investigation revealed that there was a resurgence of interest in ‘medical palm- reading’ in the Western World and also in the birthplace of palmistry – India.

Through our research we discovered that the medical profession has, for over a century, examined our fingerprints and the lines on our hands for clues to our genetic make-up. It became clear that the body’s most useful tool had many stories to tell.

I was thrilled when asked to direct this documentary and it was a great learning experience. I was grateful to have the guidance and support of Sonya Pemberton (EP), and creator of Mythbusters, Peter Rees (SP). Together we decided to put palm reading to the test.

This program features two compelling experiments. In the first we photographed the hands of eight patients each with a medical condition or pattern of behavior that some claim can be read from the hands. These photographs were presented to a fake palm reader, a real palm reader and experts in the fields of cardiology, dental health, breast cancer, clinical genetics and cardiology. The results were truly remarkable. Professor Pratibha Ramani from the Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha University picked every condition and behavior just by looking at the pattern of dermatoglyphs, or lines on the patient’s hands.

In the second experiment Professor Maciej Henneberg: from the University of Adelaide agreed to replicate a published scientific paper from 1990 which showed a correlation between the length of the life-line on the hands of one hundred cadavers and their age at death. This is the first time the study has been replicated. Our results showed no correlation suggesting that the hand does not reveal the date or time or your death.

To illustrate the different ways in which the hand can reflect our state of health and state of mind we had to find a diverse range of professionals and real people. This is always challenging, but luckily I had an amazing team to help me. Associate producers Georgie Lewin and Caroline Pegram found compelling characters and eminent scientists to help tell this curious story. It also helped having experience previous to Secrets of the Hand. I had made five documentaries that had some purchase in medical science: one on dyslexia, one on ADHD, one on autism and several on eating disorders.

It is always a difficult balancing act to feature complex science and to be faithful to the stories and the people who bring the science to life. I hope that in this instance we have succeeded in both. I was also very fortunate to have the beautiful images of cinematographer Pieter de Vries and the stellar storytelling skills of editor Andrew Cooke.

It is truly a privilege to work in this field where I have the opportunity to meet such a diverse range of people. It was terrific to spend time with Jo and Jim Estill. This Kentucky farmer’s hand quite literally saved his life. In New York City we met psychic Palm-Reader Ellen Goldberg, who passionately believes in palm-reading and is undeterred by any skepticism. Perhaps the most memorable moment for me personally was meeting Professor Pratibha Ramani in Chennai, India.

©2013 Genepool Productions Pty Ltd Tales of the Unexpected PRESS KIT A passionate dental professor, who, remarkably, was able to match our people and their conditions to their hands just by looking at the patterns on their fingerprints.

I hope that people are as intrigued by the power of our hands and the surprising stories they have to tell as I was.

Anna Bateman, Director ‘Secrets of the Hand’

Anna Bateman has been making TV programs and documentaries for over 30 years. At the age of 21 having completed a brief sojourn in tabloid TV and Australian radio, she fled to the UK where she had heard that good, rigorous and smart TV was both expected and funded. In her ten years there she worked on such groundbreaking programs as Channel 4’s ‘Network 7’ and the BBC’s ‘Reportage’. When Anna came back to Australia she joined XYZ Networks, where she produced and directed original programs, formats and made seven documentaries. Her films on autism and ADHD won Astra Best Documentary awards. Anna’s output over this time set a new benchmark for pay-TV programs in Australia. From 2004 Anna was an Executive producer at ABC TV in Perth and Melbourne, overseeing hundreds of hours of factual and Arts Programming, including the award-winning documentary ‘Saving Andrew Mallard’. In 2011 she started working for Andrew Denton’s Zapruder’s Other Films, where she made a point of opening up a ‘Can of Worms, at every given opportunity. All of Anna’s shows have sold well in the international marketplace.

Mark Hanson: Complex Heart Disease Sufferer.

Mark was born with complex heart disease. To use his words, “my arteries are all in the wrong place – I get no oxygen – blood pressure has made the end of my fingers swell, and my hands are a constant reminder of what is going on in my body.” Mark finds it difficult to do strenuous exercise of any sort, and at times it’s even hard to walk up stairs.

Mark Hanson is a patient of Professor David Celermajer (also featured in the program), and was described by him as the man with “the florid hands.” Among other clinical signals, Mark has severe clubbing of his hands due to his condition.

Bruce Shoebridge

Bruce is a bachelor who lives on the northern beaches of NSW. He’s endured living with schizophrenia for more than 30 years.

On remembering his first experiences with schizophrenia, Bruce says: "I had no idea I was going to go through what I went through - my first psychosis. It's a terrible, bloody thing. It's frightening, you can't think properly, your thoughts are racing, I thought I was the Pope, I thought I was the President of America, I thought I was Jesus."

Amber and Jesse Curtis

Despite a fairly routine birth, when Jesse was born his mum Amber felt that something was very wrong. ‘The midwives said they thought he was a funny colour,’ she said, ‘then, 24 hours later… he was looking almost dead.’ Despite a battery of tests, the doctors couldn’t work out was wrong, then they took a closer look at Jesse’s hands and noticed a ‘cat’s paw’ formation. They did a skin test and discovered that Jesse had a genetic disorder known as Trisomy 8. There are many other indictors of this condition -- intellectual development, being tongue-tied (in Jesse’s case), kidney and heart problems -- but the deep creases on the palms of the hands are an instant key indicator at birth.

Jesse’s mum Amber was told he may never walk, but he is now four years-old and happily running around. He is ‘mentally’ at the right age. The creases on Jesse’s palm are still visible, but they have started to stretch out as he grows, and so are less noticeable.

Jace Pearson: LayDee KinMee (Drag Name)

LayDee KinMee began her life in the Western suburbs of Sydney. Her ‘camp’ side shone through at a very early age when she began requesting Cher, Dolly Parton, Kylie Minogue and Madonna records or cassettes for birthday and Christmas presents, rather than toys or cartoons like other pre-school children her age.

She is one of the most recognised faces in Australian Drag. She was a semi-finalist on Channel Seven's Australia's Got Talent in 2012. She has performed throughout NSW, ACT and Victoria, and has even performed in the UK, USA and Mexico.

LayDee KinMee has gained national and international exposure for her vocal abilities, as well as her unique yodeling talents. Indeed, she has become known as ‘The Yodeling Drag Queen’.

Jim Estill

In November 2012 Jim Estill took his father to an appointment with his GP in Lexington, but when Mr. Estill Snr’s regular physician wasn’t there that day they ended up seeing Dr Charlie Becknell. In a curious turn of events, Dr Becknell “…lost all interest in my dad and was fixated on me.” Dr Becknell shook Jim's hand and wouldn't let go. "He said, your nose hasn't always been that big or your fingers that large have they?”

After 20 years of gradual swelling of his hands, Jim Estill agreed to a test that revealed a tumour on his pituitary gland. He was diagnosed with a rare disease. Dr. Lee Zimmer (also featured in the program) diagnosed Jim with Acromegaly, a pituitary disorder that produces hormones that cause tissues to grow. Jim underwent surgery to remove the tumour, and his life soon returned to normal.

His wife Jo noticed Jim’s hand changes years ago and says now, “if you see anything of concern don’t just assume – get it checked out.”

Secrets of the Hand Experts

Professor Pratibha Ramani: Professor and Head, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha University,Chennai, India.

Professor Ramani’s research involves looking at recent trends in Diagnostic oral pathology and Dermatopathology. She is presently pursuing her Doctoral Program in Dermatoglyphics, and recently submitted her thesis on this topic.

Professor Ramani is well versed on the topic of dermatoglyphics, and uses it in her work frequently as a predictor of dental caries. http://web.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=09756299&AN= 65630083&h=qgUOQqOGjJfmHSUveth7gt3wvUdADckbgkXJTA6DVKGLphT897FjVHJX5DqQGBdH1FEyc9WxhMQfNDQ x2eV7kw%3d%3d&crl=f

Professor David Celermajer: Scandrett Professor of Cardiology Medicine, Central Clinical School (Sydney University), Heart Research Institute (Royal Prince Alfred Hospital).

Professor David Celermajer is Scandrett Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney; Director of Echocardiography and Clinical Academic Cardiologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital; Clinical Director and Group Leader, Clinical Research, The Heart Research Institute and Cardiologist at the Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney.

His many awards and prizes for ongoing outstanding contributions in his field include the Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award For Excellence In Health And Medical Research, in 2002, "for outstanding lifetime achievement in health research". In 2006, Professor Celermajer was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Professor Celermajer is well versed in the usage of both sides of the hand across various diseases, but specifically those related to cardiac conditions. His patient Mark Hanson appears in Fortune’s Hand. http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/gcelermajer.php

Professor Maciej Henneberg: Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy - University of Adelaide, Medical School

Maciej Henneberg was born in Poland, where he attended university, studying biology and anthropology. He has lectured at University of Texas at Austin, University of Cape Town, and then became the Professor of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

In 1996 Professor Henneberg took the new Wood Jones Chair of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Adelaide, where he has been working ever since. He has also been working and lecturing at Oxford University (1994, 2006, 2009), where he is an International Fellow of the Unit for Biocultural Variation in Obesity. He has published 291 journal articles and book chapters, and seven books or monographs (including "The Hobbit Trap" 2008). Professor Henneberg was also the President of the American Dermatoglyphics Association for five years.

As an expert in comparative anatomy and with access to morgue full of bodies that had been donated for medical science, Professor Henneberg was the perfect person to oversee the recreation of our experiment based on the 1990 British study, “Relationship between longevity and lifeline: a manual study of 100 patients”. http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/maciej.henneberg

Dr Lynne Kelly

Dr Lynne Kelly is a science writer, working as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at La Trobe University. She is also a founding member of Australian Skeptics. An expert on the paranormal who uses aspects of the magician's art to advance skepticism, she holds degrees in education and engineering and is the author over a dozen books, including The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal.

In Secrets of the Hand our control group assumes that Lynne Kelly is actually a palm-reader. In fact, she is ‘cold reading’ -- something she reveals to them at the end of the program. http://www.lynnekelly.com.au/Lynne_Kelly/Home.html

Ellen Goldberg: Palmistry Expert

Ellen Goldberg a psychotherapist, artist and mystic working within the Hermetic Tradition for 33 years. In these years of studying and teaching, she has evolved into a Master Palmist and Tarot Card Reader. Since 1986 she has been on the faculty of the New York Open Center, teaching such classes as Tarot and Kabbalah, Tarot and Alchemy, and Archetypal Images of the Tarot. She was the Palmistry teacher at The School of Inner Vision for three years, and has been teaching privately for over 25 years. http://wisewomantherapist.com/school_of_oracles.html

Associate Professor Edwin Kirk: Staff Specialist in Medical Genetics at the Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick

Associate professor Edwin Kirk is a clinical geneticist and researcher working at Sydney Children’s Hospital and the School of Women’s and Children’s Health, UNSW. His current major research interests are applications of new sequencing technologies and the study of congenital heart disease (CHD). This includes investigation of genetic causes of CHD, as well as studies of the psychological impact of CHD on the families of affected children. He is an author on more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers, as well as a number of other publications. Other interests include medical education, and the saxophone, which he plays badly but with enthusiasm. He is married, with three children.

Professor Kirk says that in paediatrics they still use dermatoglyphics on a daily basis to look at hands and feet at birth. Professor Kirk was the geneticist who diagnosed Jesse Curtis when he was born with Trisomy 8. http://med.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-edwin-kirk

Professor Slonim came to Sydney in 2008 from the Weatherhead School of Management (Case Western Reserve University) Cleveland, Ohio, where he held the position of Associate Professor. He holds a PhD from Duke University and an MBA from the University of California Berkeley. Professor Slonim is best recognised as a pioneer in the area of experimental economics, and has written extensively on learning, trust and the economics of education. Professor Slonim has been very innovative in his use of experimental methods that have both theoretical importance and have also represented important findings for matters of public policy. He is currently working with the Red Cross and blood donation centres around the world to better understand blood donation motivation and behaviour. http://sydney.edu.au/arts/economics/staff/profiles/robert.slonim.php

Professor Ellen Garbarino: Postgraduate Research Coordinator, School of Economics University of Sydney.

Dr. Ellen Garbarino is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Sydney. She received her PhD from Duke University, and has taught at a number of US universities before moving to Australia in 2008. Her expertise is in combining psychology and economic ideas and applying them to consumer behavior and decision-making. Her research focuses on human decision-making, behavioural economics, Internet retailing, and pricing. Much of her research focuses on factors in which cognition and affect interact, such as trust, risk, commitment, and fairness. Her research has been published in many leading Marketing and Economics journals including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing and Journal of Business Research. http://sydney.edu.au/business/staff/elleng

Series Producer PETER REES Online Editor MICAH RIX-HAYES Director ANNA BATEMAN Production Managers SELINA FORBES Editor ANDREW COOKE Additional Production Management PRASAN DE SILVA Associate Producer/Researcher COLLEEN HANNAH CAROLINE PEGRAM GEORGIE LEWIN Production Coordinator JOSEPHINE WRIGHT ADELINE GIBSON

Camera Production Assistant PIETER DE VRIES Emma Vickery

Additional Camera Head of Production GARY RUSSELL TONI MALONE PETER COLEMAN Production Supervisor Sound ELOISE WILLIAMS NICK PETERSON Production Accountants Additional Sound BRONWYN SPEZIALE MATTHEW BRAND CAROL RAMIREZ JEREMY IRELAND Business Affairs Script Consultant KATHERINE SHORTLAND ANDREW MASTERSON SBS Commissioning Editor Scientific Consultant JOSEPH MAXWELL PROFESSOR PHILIP BATTERHAM ALICE KLEIN FOR SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL

Narrator Vice President of Production Management RACHAEL BLAKE ADDIE MORAY

Music Executive Producer CHARLIE CHAN MUSIC JOY GALANE

Graphic Design Executive Producer DOMINIC BARTOLO TIM EVANS 21:19 Vice President of Development Audio Mix CHRIS HOELZL TRACKS POST Vice President of Production Colourist CHARLES POE TRISTAN LA FONTAINE

Special Thanks Dr. Charlie Becknell, Prof. David Celermajer, Deepak Chaturvedi Dr. Richard Curry Amber and Jesse Curtis, Amrita Dhugga, Jim and Jo Estill, Wes Fisk, Prof Ellen Garbarino, Ellen Goldberg, Mark Hanson, Prof. Maciej Henneberg, Brett Hartley, Lynne Kelly, Prof Edwin Kirk, Corey Lloyd, Paul McGee, Diane and Claire McGirr, Jace Pearson, Prof Pratibha Ramani, Miles & Cameron Shanahan, Bruce Shoebridge, Prof Bob Slonim, Prof. Hans Zoellner,

Archive Footage DECEMBER FILMS

Executive Producers SONYA PEMBERTON & MICHAEL CORDELL

GENEPOOL PRODUCTIONS

SMITHSONIAN NETWORK

SBS (Developed & Produced)

PRINCIPAL INVESTOR SCREEN AUSTRALIA

Who’s Your Daddy?

Now there’s nowhere to hide your genes.

One in three children, claim many tabloids, may not be biologically related to the man they call Dad. Could this really be true? This program conducts the first ever purpose- designed paternity poll, asking some truly awkward questions. Comparing rates of paternity uncertainty in Australia and the United States, we ask what is the real rate of ‘non-paternity’, and might there be biological survival benefits for children born outside marriage? Following parents and children as they seek to uncover the truth, we discover how today, there’s nowhere to hide your genes.

Writer/Director- Peter Rees

Series Producer – Peter Rees

Who’s Your Daddy Director’s Statement

This documentary draws its inspiration from a curious article that Executive Producer Sonya Pemberton discovered several years ago. Like all producers she collates stories that will spark an idea for future projects. This particular article made a brief reference to a quasi-mythical 1970s evolutionary theory called the Sneaky Fucker Strategy, and launched the idea of charting the dangerous waters and crosscurrents of modern mating and their impact on paternity.

This episode asks some truly awkward questions, including is there a genetic disposition among women to cheat, and can this improve their reproductive odds? We sought to discover how reliable are paternity tests, and how they work. We also asked how inviolate is the right to know? In this harsh new world of DNA determinism, can a little knowledge be a dangerous thing?

How many children are born each year without knowing the true identity of their biological father? The tabloids claim the figure could be as high as one in three. To answer the question this documentary commissioned leading pollster Roy Morgan to conduct a survey of two thousand two hundred women in the United States and Australia. They were asked three questions about their sexual encounters. The survey questions were developed in conjunction with Prof. Rob Brooks from the University of New South Wales. The results revealed that, contrary to popular belief, as few as one or two in one hundred children will have legitimate questions about their paternity.

Being the creator of Mythbusters, I could draw on my experiences of making scientific documentary programs and relate to testing theories. Mythbusters sought to execute large-scale experiments and achieved scientifically valid results. But, like many scientific experiments, the process of finding results always encountered a few challenges.

Given the subject of this documentary is paternity, the discussion was always going to be highly sensitive. It was extremely difficult to find people who were willing to open their lives to public scrutiny and possibly find answers regarding their paternity that could change their lives. However, with persistence and a good team, we managed to get find outstanding stories that illuminated both the human and scientific complexity.

Making a documentary is also a learning process. Through this documentary I finally understood how a DNA test is actually done! I also cried for the first time in many years of television making. Opening the results of Jimmie and Kimberly was a deeply moving experience. I hope that the audience will be moved as much as I was.

Peter Rees, Director ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’, also Series Producer

Peter Rees has more than twenty years in the television business working in all aspects of production and post-production. Between 2002 and 2006 Peter created, directed and executive produced the international hit science series MythBusters. He guided the show through 82 episodes establishing all ratings records. For five years Peter was based in the United States where he worked for National Geographic Television and Discovery Communications. He is now based in Sydney, Australia, creating reality and entertainment programs with Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder.

Who’s Your Daddy? Characters

Dion Hawkins

Dion is a 26 year-old law graduate from Canberra who is looking to identify his biological dad. At the time of Dion’s conception, his mum, Linda, had been seeing two men, and so his biological dad has never been confirmed.

Prior to opting for DNA paternity testing, Dion was looking into doing an ancestry DNA test as an alternative. This test can determine what part of the world you’re from. He thought that would put his mind at ease, given that one of his potential fathers, Peter, was from the Caribbean and dark-skinned.

Kimberly Nash and Jimmie Crust

Kimberly Nash (23) and Jimmie Crust (35) live in Butler, 30 miles out of Kansas City. Kimberly is 16 weeks pregnant and uncertain who the father of her child is.

Kimberly and Jimmie used to date, but then lost touch a couple of years ago. Kimberly had been seeing another man (the other potential father) when Jimmie came back into her life. She thinks Jimmie is the father, but she's not entirely sure. The other man on the scene doesn’t want to know about the baby or the outcome.

Kimberly and Jimmie are keen to find out paternity of the baby, as they would like to restart their relationship and move on with their lives. Kimberly is hoping that Jimmie will consider adopting the baby even if it's not his child.

The advanced foetal blood DNA testing will allow them find out paternity before the baby is born.

Virginia and Liam

Virginia has three children. Her youngest son, Liam, has different colouring to the rest of the family and has mild autism. Virginia claims there are unfounded rumours within the family about his paternity. She says she’s ‘200% sure’ that Liam is her ex-husband’s son, and she wants to prove it. Virginia believes the ‘kinship’ DNA test will reassure Liam that he shares the same paternity of his siblings.

Who’s Your Daddy Experts

Professor Rob Brooks: School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales

Rob is an evolutionary biologist who studies the evolutionary consequences of sex - particularly in the context of sexual reproduction. His work addresses the evolution of mate choice behaviour, the co-evolution between mate choice and sexual advertisement, sex chromosome evolution, the biology of ageing and longevity, the risks of extinction, the genetic costs of inbreeding, the biological basis of individual diversity, and the measurement of natural selection

He runs a research group called the SEX LAB, and is the author of ‘Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll: How Evolution has shaped the Modern World’. He also writes regularly on how an evolutionary view can help us understand our world.

https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-rob-brooks http://www.robbrooks.net/

Professor Michael Gilding: Executive Dean, Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University

Professor Gilding is an economic sociologist who specialises in innovation, family business, and the social dimensions of economic behaviour. He has written three books, and more than 30 journal articles and book chapters. His research has attracted more than $1 million in National Competitive Grants, including partnerships with AusBiotech, Pitcher Partners and CSIRO.

In his role as Executive Dean, The Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Professor Gilding provides academic leadership and executive management to the faculty. A major focus for this role is to lead and develop the faculty to further build Swinburne's reputation in the fields of teaching and research, and to exploit the numerous opportunities for synergy among disciplines within and between faculties.

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/business/staff/directory/mgilding.html?who=mgilding

Associate Professor Kermyt G. Anderson: Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma

Kermyt G. Anderson, Ph.D., is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is the co-author of ‘Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior’. He received a BA in Anthropology and Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his MS and PhD from the University of New Mexico, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in demography at the University of Michigan. He has lived in England and South Africa, and been involved in data collection in Cape Town, South Africa since 1998. His research interests include parental investment in children, paternity confidence, marriage and divorce, fertility patterns, and educational attainment

http://cas.ou.edu/kermyt-g-anderson

Professor Raoul Mulder: Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne.

Professor Mulders’s main area of research is the evolutionary ecology of birds, with a particular focus on understanding the causes and consequences of variability in mating systems, the role of visual and acoustic signals, and the influence of kinship on sociality. His PhD research involved teasing out aspects of the bizarre mating system of superb fairy-wrens (Malarus cyaneus) and was carried out at the Australian National University under the supervision of Professor Andrew Cockburn. He then spent time working and traveling in Madagascar, and studying the Madagascar paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone mutata). Returning to Australia, he held an ARC postdoctoral fellowship at the ANU from 1996-1998. Following this, he took up a lectureship in the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne. In 2007, he was appointed as Associate Professor and Reader and he is currently Deputy Head of Department.

http://www.zoology.unimelb.edu.au/staff2/profile,academic,r.mulder.html http://raoulmulder.org/

Jonathan Sheena Chief Technology Officer, NATERA.

Jonathan. Sheena is company co-founder of Natera. Natera is pioneering next generation accuracy and reliability with tests ranging from pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for IVF to breakthrough advances in the field of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT).

http://www.natera.com/management-team.html

Associate Professor Brooke Scelza: UCLA Department of Anthropology

Brooke Scelza is human behavioural ecologist at UCLA Department of Anthropology. She is interested in understanding the adaptive nature of behaviour as a function of local socio-ecological context. Her research focuses on a variety of questions related to reproductive decision-making and parental investment, and on understanding the social environment as a critical influence on how people negotiate life history trade-offs.

Brooke currently conducts fieldwork with the Himba in northwest Namibia, and the Martu of the Western Desert of Australia. This research focuses mainly on the effect of familial and social relationships on health and wellbeing.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/bscelza/Brooke_A._Scelza/Home.html http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=5349

Professor Martie G. Haselton Ph.D.: UCLA Departments of Psychology, Communication Studies, and Institute for Society and Genetics

Professor Haselton is an interdisciplinary evolutionary scientist interested in how evolution has shaped the social mind. She is interested in human intimate relationships and sexuality, their endocrine foundations, and their links to outcomes with broad social relevance, including health and well-being. To explore these topics, she performs laboratory experiments, hormone assessments, genetic typing, surveys, and field studies – in short, whatever method best fits the research question.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/haselton/index.php

Matthew Webb: Analyst, DNA Solutions.

Matthew Webb is an analyst with Melbourne Based genetics laboratory DNA Solutions. He has been with the company since 2007, overseeing all aspects of their operation. In that time he has performed thousands of paternity tests. Matthew has an honours degree in biomedical science from Monash University.

http://www.dnasolutions.com.au

CREDITS - Who’s Your Daddy?

Series Producer and Director Stock Footage & Stills PETER REES NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVES Editor IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON ROBIN LLOYD BEN NUNNEY Production Managers SELINA FORBES Associate Producer CAROLINE PEGRAM Additional Production Managers GEORGIE LEWIN PRASAN DE SILVA JOSEPHINE WRIGHT COLLEEN HANNAH

Production Coordinator Camera ADELINE GIBSON GARY RUSSELL Production Assistant Sound Recordist EMMA VICKERY MATTHEW BRAND LEAH APPLEBY

Script Consultant Head of Business Affairs ANDREW MASTERSON KATHERINE SHORTLAND

Production Accountant Narrator BRONWYN SPEZIALE RACHAEL BLAKE Accounts Assist Music CAROL RAMIREZ CHARLIE CHAN MUSIC Head of Production Graphics TONI MALONE DOMINIC BARTOLO 21:19 Production Supervisor ELOISE WILLIAMS

Audio Mix SBS Commissioning Editor TRACKS POST JOSEPH MAXWELL

Colourist TRISTAN LA FONTAINE FOR SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL

Online Editor Vice President of Production Management MICAH RIX-HAYES ADDIE MORAY

Scientific Consultant Executive Producer PROFESSOR BENJAMIN OLDROYD JOY GALANE

Executive Producer Executive Producers TIM EVANS SONYA PEMBERTON & MICHAEL CORDELL Vice President of Development CHRIS HOELZL GENEPOOL PRODUCTIONS Vice President of Production CHARLES POE SMITHSONIAN NETWORK

Executive Vice President of Produced In Association with SBS Programming and Production DAVID ROYLE PRINCIPAL INVESTOR SCREEN AUSTRALIA

Special Thanks

Professor Rob Brooks, Dion Hawkins, Kimberly Nash © 2013 Genepool Productions Pty Ltd and & James Crust, Emily Wilde, Virginia & Liam Norris, Screen Australia Andy Rule, Professor Michael Gilding, Professor Martie Haselton, Andreas Kouremenos, Monica May, Sandra Minchero, Professor Raoul Mulder, , Assistant Professor Brooke Scelza, Jonathan Sheena, David Silver, Danny Stainsbury, Matthew Webb, Emily Wilde, Jane Wolfe, Ashley Madison, Climb Fit Indoor Rock-Climbing Gym - St. Leonards, DDC DNA Diagnostics Center - USA DNA Testing Laboratory, DNA Solutions - Australian DNA Testing Laboratory, Exam One – Oklahoma City, GPO Sydney Restaurant & Bar, Hotel by the Hour, Malibu Surf School, Melbourne City Council, Natera, Oklahoma City Council, Roy Morgan Research, Russo Partners, University of California, University of Melbourne, University of UNSW, Swinburne University of Technology

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

Tales Of The Unexpected is a new strand of provocative, confronting and thoroughly entertaining science documentaries series. Each episode reveals a fascinating, sometimes awkward, and frequently unsettling world where peculiar ideas are put to the test. Come with us to where nothing is quite as it seems, where diseases are diagnosed by palm-readers, where paternity uncertainty drives the mating game, and where breasts are a toxic health hazard.

CONTACT DETAILS

Sales: Cordell Jigsaw Distribution (e) [email protected]

Media: SBS Publicity Department

Genepool Productions (e) [email protected]

CJZ Publicity (e) [email protected]