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Global News Podcast

The Happy Pod: Finding love at 89 years old

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Meet the newlyweds with a twist; 87-year old Bev says it was love at first sight when 89-year-old Mark moved into the same care home as her. Also, the Olympic marathon runner who is celebrating coming last. Presenter: Oliver Conway. Music composed by Iona Hampson.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

0:05.0

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 17th of August

0:13.4

newly wedged at nearly 90 how it's never too late to find love.

0:18.4

I think I loved him from the first time I saw him.

0:21.6

I couldn't see myself with anyone else but when I saw

0:24.8

a mark that was quite a different story. Yes I fell for him hookline and sinker.

0:29.8

The marathon runner from Bhutan who's celebrating despite coming last in the Olympics.

0:35.0

I was so grateful and happy that I'm not alone.

0:40.0

The wall is sharing on me and I should try harder.

0:44.0

And the vlogging grandfather who's found a huge new following on YouTube.

0:49.0

Also in the podcast, how Rwanda's first official cheerleading squad is hoping to empower

0:55.2

women plus an amazing act of kindness to try to repair a community hit by riots in

1:01.0

the UK.

1:09.0

Now of course love can strike anywhere, but our first interview is with a pair of newlyweds who met in a care home in Australia.

1:15.8

Bev Martin, who is 87, fell for 89-year-old Mark Catlin when he moved in.

1:22.3

In fact, she knew he was the one the moment she set eyes on him.

1:26.1

I spoke to them both about that initial spark and how they came to be married in their nursing home in Tasmania.

1:35.0

Well, we met in the nursing home. I've been here seven years, but Mark's only been here for a month.

1:39.0

But when the day I saw he came in, I thought, geez, a nice looking guy you know I don't know things just

1:45.9

escalated from there and we just fell in love with each other as simple as that and we're

1:52.0

both lonely people like I'd been married before for 56 years.

1:56.7

Mark's been on his own for quite a few years too.

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