Million Dollar Lover – Ep 10: Final Plot

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this last programme of the series, the community of Cayucos is watching on and wondering how things will develop. Is there a way to handle a situation like this, where homelessness and wealth collide. Where a damaged man and a frail older woman come together to share a life?

The unusual romance between Dave and Carolyn 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.

New episodes will be released on Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts. 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.

With special thanks to Producer Hannah Norbury-Meeajane at Radio 4 Digital and BBC Radio 4's Commissioning Editor Daniel Clarke.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Once you've wrapped up this podcast, how about trying a very British cult?
0:06.0	What happens if the person you trust with your future isn't what you think they are?
0:10.0	I did feel the whole time he was watching me Yeti.
0:14.0	I saw a footprint and that really gave me goosebumps.
0:16.0	Or people who knew me.
0:18.0	Emmy, I remember every secret, every lie.
0:21.0	I'm the only one who knows the truth.
0:23.0	Discover more of our biggest podcast from 2003.
0:27.0	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.
0:35.0	You're about to listen to intrigue, million dollar lover.
0:39.0	Episodes will be released on
0:45.0	B. B. C. S. I was working abroad on a reporting assignment when Carolyn came home, but it wasn't the homecoming we were all praying for.
1:09.0	Her daughters Sally and Susan had messaged me to say that staff at the nursing home had told
1:14.8	them nothing more could be done for their mom. They were bringing her home to
1:19.5	die. My neighbor Sue called to tell me that the family was keeping all other visitors away, including
1:27.4	Dave, who'd been Carolyn's live-in lover for the past two years.
1:36.0	They won't tell me anything. I mean, they said they could write a letter so I wrote a little note to Carolyn and
1:41.0	I told Dave this morning he could write a letter if you wanted and put it in the mailbox
1:46.8	so I'm grateful for that but it's not good. They won't let me in. Nobody can go.
1:53.0	And every time I drive by there, it just makes me sad.
1:56.0	They won't tell me anything.
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