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Hello, this is six minute English from BBC learning English. I'm Neil and I'm Rob

It's great that you're here to keep me company to spend time with me so I don't get lonely because loneliness is the subject of this program.

It's good to be here Neil. I think many of us have experienced loneliness at some point.

Maybe you felt lonely because all your friends have gone out for

dinner without you or maybe you felt lonely just because you don't fit in

somewhere. Yes that's when we sometimes use the expression to feel lonely in a crowd.

Well, we'll be exploring if this is a new idea or something humans have always experienced,

and along the way we'll be teaching you some new vocabulary.

But now I'm here to keep you company.

How about a question for me?

Of course.

Well, one possibly lonely man is Mauro Morandy.'s lived alone on Boudelli Island in Italy for many

years but how many years exactly is it a six years be 31 years or C 44 years?

M. 44 years will be tough as with 31.

So I'll go for six years.

Okay Rob we'll find out later if that's right.

Now I'm sure we all want to be alone from time to time to escape the demands of our colleagues or the pressures of real life, but would we really want to be totally alone?

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