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Bed of Lies
The Telegraph
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
One by one, the men vanish. As the search begins, the girlfriends start to question what they’re really looking for - and who they’re actually in love with.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:02.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's December 1999. |
| 0:15.0 | Westlife have taken the festive number one and the Millennium Bugs in the news. |
| 0:21.7 | Alison's getting ready for her third Christmas in five years with her boyfriend Mark, |
| 0:26.4 | the guy from Birkenhead with the scraggy ponytail. |
| 0:29.9 | He's estranged from his family, so he likes spending Christmas with her. |
| 0:45.1 | They have a routine on Christmas Day, presents in the morning, and then lunch at Alison's mum's. |
| 0:54.4 | But before the day even arrives, it all goes wrong. Mark gets an emergency call. |
| 0:57.5 | His grandfather has a sudden stroke. |
| 1:00.4 | He gets called away on his pager to go back up north. |
| 1:02.8 | Our Christmas is ruined. |
| 1:05.5 | He's back in Hackney for New Year, |
| 1:08.9 | and they go to Alison's brothers to see in the Millennium. |
| 1:12.2 | But by this point, and Alison remembers this clearly, |
| 1:19.8 | something has changed in Mark. He comes back a different man. He comes back very depressed. |
| 1:26.6 | As January turns to February, his temper worsens. He's very withdrawn and he's working harder. |
| 1:28.5 | He goes to work earlier, he comes back later. |
| 1:31.1 | He tells me he's got a new job in Luton. So he'll be home late, he tells me, and he is. |
| 1:34.3 | He doesn't get back till about half nine every night. |
| 1:37.6 | Alison's so concerned she brings it up at couples therapy. |
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