Million Dollar Lover – Ep 9. Missing You

Intrigue

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

With Carolyn’s daughters powerless to act, it looks like Dave might be on the brink of a receiving a small fortune from his 80 year old lover, Carolyn. She has promised to take care of him and says that he is the best thing to happen in her life. Her daughters do not believe she is in her right mind, but they cannot find anyone prepared to help them.

It is shaping up for a distressing battle when suddenly events take a turn for the worse.

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 by R&M Production, 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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0:41.0	You're about to listen to intrigue, Million Dollar Lover. Episodes will be released on
0:46.6	Thursday wherever you get your podcasts. But if you're in the UK, listen to the full series right now, first on BBC Sounds.
0:57.0	I was on a reporting assignment in the South of England when the message came through.
1:06.0	Carolyn was in hospital. She was very ill.
1:10.0	I've had my phone switched off because I was out recording. It was only when I switched it back on that I saw several missed calls,
1:18.0	and a text marked urgent from my neighbor Sue, the one who'd first introduced Carolyn to Dave.
1:25.0	When I got back to the hotel, I called him.
1:29.0	He told me, Carolyn had COVID.
1:33.0	Oh, I'm so sorry.
1:35.0	Are you poorly yourself?
1:36.0	If you got it, have you got it as well?
1:38.0	Yeah, it's just me this morning, and I tested positive, so I got to stay home. And when did Carolyn start
1:46.4	getting ill? She wasn't feeling good like Thursday and then Friday and Saturday just laid around and so I called the permit Sunday.
1:58.0	It was the summer of 2022. The worst of the COVID pandemic was over, but there was a new strain of the virus that was spreading everywhere.
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