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🗓️ 15 August 2025
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0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
0:09.1 | Today, how dating apps lost their shine. |
0:19.9 | Today in Focus is supported by UK for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. |
0:28.3 | Do you ever think about how much suffering goes unreported? |
0:32.8 | And if you don't know, how can you ever choose to do something about it? |
0:41.1 | Right now, Sudan is experiencing one of the largest and fastest growing humanitarian crises in the world, but it's not dominating headlines. |
0:49.1 | Ongoing conflict and violence has forced millions of people to flee their homes and over 25 |
0:56.7 | million are in urgent need of help lacking food, water, medicine and shelter. |
1:05.1 | But there is something we can do. UNHCR is the UN Refugee Agency and protects people fleeing conflict and persecution around the world. |
1:15.6 | It has teams on the ground right now in Sudan and in neighbouring countries delivering life-saving aid to families searching for safety. |
1:26.6 | They're providing thermal blankets, clean water and emergency shelter, and they need your help to keep delivering. |
1:35.3 | Your donation today could make a massive difference to someone who's been forced to flee their home in Sudan. |
1:43.3 | Search UNHCR Sudan appeal and donate to help deliver vital, life-saving aid and protection to refugees and displaced people. I'm Eleanor, who is one of the producers on our show, came into work the other day with a story about her latest adventure on London's dating scene. |
2:12.6 | So, I was in Charlton coming back from the Lido. It's very suburban. There's no one really around. |
2:19.5 | This guy walks towards me, noticed him looking at me, but didn't think anything of it. |
2:24.4 | And then there was this beat as we walked past each other. And through my headphones, I heard him say, |
2:30.4 | excuse me, how old are you? Right. And I was like, that is seriously weird. |
2:35.5 | But I will answer honestly. |
2:37.1 | So, you know, despite being a bit confused, I was like, I'm 29, how old are you? |
2:42.4 | And he said, I'm 24. |
2:44.3 | And I was thinking, this is the weirdest interaction I've ever had with another person. |
2:49.1 | At which point, he goes, look, I'm really sorry to do this, but can I get your number? And I am dating. You know, he was kind of cute and I was like, yeah, go on. You know, I could have changed a digit, but I was like, to hell with it. I'll give him my number. So I come home and I think, oh my God, someone just asked me out on the street. Like, |
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