Million Dollar Lover – Ep 2. A Lady Never Tells

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Carolyn had not expected to fall in love at 80 and certainly not to someone 23 years younger. But she has embraced all aspects of her new relationship, including having sex and being open with her daughters about that. Her honesty has not gone down well and even her Pastor, Dale James, is shocked that the couple are now living together in this way.

Concerned about the speed of the relationship and the direction it's taking, Carolyn's daughters turn to the police and outside agencies for help. They believe their Mum is in the early stages of dementia, but her GP did not support their diagnosis and now Carolyn will not go back for further tests. Their options for stopping Dave taking control of their Mum's life appear to be limited and they fear what might happen.

Million Dollar Lover is an unlikely love story, recorded over a year as the relationship unfolds between Carolyn, who has a valuable property portfolio, and Dave, a former drug addict who was homeless and has a long criminal record.

Soon everyone is asking whether he is really a tender carer or a dangerous interloper who will fleece her – breaking her heart and her family?

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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.

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds.
0:30.0	BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts. romantic love is a kind of madness. It's so intense that it makes you feel like Dorothy over the rainbow. Life goes from
0:58.1	monochrome to Technicolor in a heartbeat. It's how I felt in my late 40s when I fell in love with my husband.
1:07.9	I can remember sitting on the beach with him at Cayucus and it was as if I'd never seen the waves before. The sun caught the
1:17.0	beads of spray and the light fragmented into a cascade of color.
1:23.0	When you're in love, everything intensifies.
1:27.0	You feel alive.
1:29.0	Now my husband was sick and he was staying with relatives while I was doing up our home
1:38.0	making the ground floor into a flat in case we ever needed a carer in the future and sorting out other building jobs
1:45.2	we'd put off for so long. Dave was one of the workmen on the project. He told me he'd
1:52.0	recently moved in with Carolyn, a wealthy widow who lived on our street.
1:57.0	Romantic love was transforming the world for Carolyn, as surely as if she was a teenager.
2:05.0	You know, he would do anything for me.
2:09.0	He would protect me with his life.
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