Million Dollar Lover – Ep 1: Stranger in Town

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Million Dollar Lover is an unlikely love story, recorded in real time as the relationship unfolds between Carolyn, who is 80 and has a valuable property portfolio, and Dave, 57, a former drug addict who is homeless and has spent a decade in jail. The story captured the attention of the BBC Journalist Sue Mitchell, as it was unfolding on her street. She spends a lot of time in California – she married an American and her award-winning journalism has been about the lives of people like Dave who inhabit the dangerous margins of society. There are so many homeless people in America that the wealthy can no longer avoid contact with them. When Dave arrives in Cayucos, a charming beach town, prosperous and sunny all year round, he goes to church. Some people there try to help him find work and recommend him to Carolyn as an odd job man. She falls in love with him and within a fortnight, Dave has moved in. Is Dave really a tender carer who will cherish Carolyn to the end as he promises, or is he a dangerous interloper who will fleece Carolyn – breaking her heart and her family? New episodes will be released on Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts. But if you’re in the UK, listen to the latest full series of Intrigue first on BBC Sounds. https://bbc.in/3WEQS5W Million Dollar Lover is produced at BBC Audio by the team behind The Boy in the Woods and is presented by Sue Mitchell. The series is scripted by Winifred Robinson; the producers are Sue Mitchell and Joel Moors; the dramaturg is Flo Dessau and sound design is by Tom Brignall. The editor is Philip Sellars.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service.
0:04.7	Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests.
0:08.8	Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook.
0:11.2	Technology doesn't want to be good or bad.
0:15.0	It's in the hands of the creator.
0:16.7	It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room.
0:20.7	If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes,
0:24.6	you're doing the wrong thing.
0:26.0	Julie, at your service, listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. High five let me hear it. I love you, I know. I love you. I love you, Carolyn. I know. I know.
0:55.0	Chance had brought Carolyn and Dave together in an affluent American beach town.
1:00.0	I love you. I know that. Mm. That's why I'm here. I know it thank the Lord.
1:07.3	Dave was an ex-con living rough doing odd jobs. When he came to Carolin's to help out with the garden. She was a wealthy widow
1:16.3	with a property portfolio worth millions. Within weeks she'd fallen in love with him and taking him in.
1:24.5	There was a big age gap. She was 80, he was 57.
1:29.5	I love his personality and I hate it when he's gone. I love him. I love him to pieces.
1:36.2	They were an unlikely match, but I could see that for Carolyn, the thrill of being loved, of being in love, hadn't diminished with age.
1:44.7	It's hard sometimes, you're a young man.
1:47.5	Yeah, we're from Mars, you're from Venus.
1:50.5	Getting to know Dave and Carolyn also meant getting to know her daughters. They didn't
1:56.8	buy for one minute the idea that Dave's love was genuine. They thought their
2:01.5	mom's age, her wealth, and her loneliness had left her vulnerable.
2:06.0	That's our mom. We're not going to let you just do that.
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