How did a Tinder date story fool us?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Everyone who has heard the story of a woman on a Tinder date spending £15,000 on wine at the Shard seems to have loved it. The voice note has whipped around social media. But as soon as you’ve heard it you start to wonder if it’s true. Nesta McGregor from Radio 1’s Newsbeat tells us how some fairly basic research revealed it as false. We pick up the investigation and attempt to track down the source of the story while David Robson, author of ‘Intelligence Trap’, tells us about the origins and enduring appeal of urban myths. Producers: Lucy Hancock and Jaja Muhammad Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.3	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.9	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.6	Every day we ask a big question about a big story.
0:14.0	Today, how did a tinder date story fool us?
0:27.0	It all started with a WhatsApp message.
0:34.0	Okay, so this girl at work told me the story this morning.
0:38.0	It's going to make you loll massively.
0:41.0	So basically, a friend of hers, I went on a t tender date to the shard for some drinks and she's had a really shit day at work.
0:47.6	So when she got there she was like ordered herself this like 50 pound bottle of wine.
0:51.6	Anyway when her tinder date arrived he sort of had something, he's like, oh yeah, that's really nice. They ordered like a couple more bottles. Anyway, when the bill came, it was 15,000 pounds and she had misread the menu and she thought it was 50
1:07.3	it was 5,000 pounds per bottle she was like I can't fucking pay this, like what the hell?
1:13.5	The guy on the tinder date was like, I thought was a 50 pound bottle of white, like what the
1:17.3	fuck, like I'm not paying for this.
1:19.6	She then had to get the manager over and was like, I'm really sorry, but I cannot afford 15,000 pounds like what the
1:24.1	fuck he was like well can you pay retail price which is nine grand she was like no I still
1:29.2	can't fucking pay nine grand and she was like to people like why the hell do you warn me and they were like well we get
1:33.6	billionaires that come in here like we don't ask people because it can like be insulting
1:38.1	anyway she now has a direct debit set up to the shard that she has to pay off for the next 10 years.
1:44.0	It went round our team, Duncan sent it out on the group and it felt like the whole world
1:50.0	shared it. I ended up sending it to over 20 plus people and that even includes groups as
1:56.7	well so I don't know how many people actually reached. I even remember titling the
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