The new drama won’t shy away from the difficult questions, and has the chance to inform as well as entertain
The first episode of the new
BBC drama The Nest makes for fascinating viewing. Dan and Emily are having a baby. They are in love, rich, and live in a massive house in Glasgow. The first episode opens with them debating baby names … but it is not Emily who’s pregnant. After years of trying for a baby they have turned to surrogacy.
They bump into 18-year-old Kaya. She is poor and disenfranchised; the couple are rich and secure. She offers to carry their baby and Emily readily agrees, but Dan worries about the ethics of such an arrangement.