How to Fight Loneliness in Adult Life - Graham and Maria share their advice
Wanging On with Graham Norton and Maria McErlane
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4.7 • 738 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Listen up. |
| 0:00.5 | Huh? |
| 0:00.8 | That means you. |
| 0:01.6 | Yes, you. |
| 0:02.4 | We know you're pointing at yourself. |
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| 0:44.4 | Pickleball can't be hard because so many people do it. Right. |
| 0:44.7 | It's like driving. |
| 0:45.7 | You need to reinvent yourself, Jack, as a man without, sadly, your wife. |
| 0:50.7 | Life is incredibly cruel. |
| 0:52.3 | She's 56. |
| 0:53.1 | You've only got a few more years left to find |
| 0:55.9 | someone eligible with their own teeth. Where you can take wedding photographs without a thick filter. |
| 1:05.9 | Hello there and welcome to this episode of wanging on with Graham and Maria, where we give you |
| 1:10.8 | the very |
| 1:11.1 | best in non-expert advice. Maria, tomorrow's a special day, isn't it? Why? Because it's your |
| 1:18.3 | boy's day. Oh, no, we don't do birthdays anymore, Graham. No, and I was going to queue a cake, |
| 1:23.7 | but it's not happening. No, best not. No, it's too small a space for that many candles. |
| 1:47.4 | I was waiting for the kicker. I knew it would come. No, but after a certain stage, it's unseemly, I think, to, you know, to kind of wang on about it. Wang on. Yeah. But are you not doing anything for your birthday? Well, obviously, when my present from you arrives, which, as you know, is a pony. |
| 1:48.0 | Yes. Because I spoke to your assistant to organise it. Then obviously I might have a celebration. No, I will go out for dinner with some friends. Okay. No, in Hastings, otherwise you could come. Yes, and I can't go to Hastings. No. It's far too far away. And also, they don't like you there. No. There's posters up everywhere. No, Graham Norton here with a big cross through it. Well, because they keep thinking I'm buying a house and then I don't. I mean, the amount of people that say, I've spotted Graham Norton. I spotted Graham Norton. He was in the pub. |
| 2:18.3 | He was in the co-op. It's like, no, he wasn't. And I just now, I just say, oh, yeah, really? |
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