Million Dollar Lover – Ep 3: The Fight

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Carolyn is facing mounting opposition to her relationship with Dave, who is 23 years younger than her and a world away in terms of wealth and lifestyle. She is being forced to make the most difficult choice possible: between her daughters and her new lover. The situation becomes so heated that it finally erupts into violence.

Opposition to Dave makes Carolyn more determined to support him and she decides to take back control of her finances from her daughters. They fear she is showing signs of mental incapacity and want her to agree to be tested, but Carolyn is digging her heels in and is adamant that she can make her own decisions

The situation is escalating really quickly, with her daughters are increasingly on the side-lines - powerless to act. They have huge concerns about Dave, who has a long criminal record and was homeless and addicted to the drug, Crystal Meth. They cannot get their Mum to listen and as long as she says she is happy, there appears to be nothing that they can do.

Million Dollar Lover is an unlikely love story, recorded over a year as the relationship unfolds between Carolyn, who is 80 and has a valuable property portfolio, and Dave, 57, who arrives in the idyllic Californian resort of Cayucos by chance and quickly decides to make it his home

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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.

Transcript

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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, you're doing the wrong thing.
0:26.0	Julie, at your service, listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. on the BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:37.0	There's a moment in your relationship with your child when the power shifts.
0:48.0	For years and years you tell them how to behave and suddenly they start telling you. It's uncomfortable.
0:56.5	The flashpoint's strangely familiar. Don't live like that. Don't spend money
1:02.1	on that. Don't date like that. Don't spend money on that. Don't date that person.
1:06.0	It's never good at any age to bring someone unsuitable into the family.
1:11.5	Yeah, you know him.
1:12.1	Hey! Kill him, boy, you're in the family. Hey! Can I'm getting the drum.
1:15.0	Go for it.
1:16.0	Don't want to stop it out.
1:18.0	What is it?
1:20.0	Listen to the music, Andy. Take Dave, Carolyn's new partner.
1:26.0	He's pretty unsuitable by most people's standards.
1:29.0	He has no money and a long criminal record.
1:32.0	He smokes a lot of cannabis. He starts drinking beer
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