The Sunday Edition: Why young Brits are turning to Dubai
The Story
[email protected]
4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This episode was originally published last November.
As inquiries about relocating to the Emirati city from the UK have risen four-fold in the past five years; what does its allure say about life back home?
This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory
Further reading: Dubai’s allure to UK youth should raise alarm
- https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/allure-dubai-uk-youth-raise-alarm-xq7s8d8sg
Get in touch: [email protected]
Guest: Will Lloyd, reporter at The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Will Roe.
Photo: Getty images.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | When Gareth was 14, he was in a relationship with an attractive young teacher at his school, |
| 0:06.0 | and he thought he was the luckiest boy in the world. |
| 0:09.0 | But when she walked out of his life, everything started to unravel. |
| 0:13.0 | 35 years later, everyone's acting like it never happened, and Gareth wants to understand why. |
| 0:20.0 | How about the truth? How about we do that first, and then we work out where we're going to go from there? |
| 0:24.5 | How about the truth? |
| 0:25.7 | This new four-part series is about who gets to be a perpetrator and a victim. |
| 0:31.3 | To listen, just search for Lucky Boy, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:47.7 | Music wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, this is Edith Ruselo, the producer on the story. |
| 0:52.5 | Every weekend, we rave the sorry archives for an episode you might have missed that we think you'd love. |
| 1:00.4 | This weekend, take a listen to this episode we did back in November on why some young Brits are turning to Dubai. |
| 1:09.3 | Enjoy! young Brits are turning to Dubai. Enjoy. From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 1:21.6 | One thing that becomes very apparent if you have anything like TikTok or anything like |
| 1:32.9 | Instagram is that you will start to see Dubai. |
| 1:36.4 | If you follow any British influencer, you will start to see Dubai. |
| 1:40.6 | Dubai is the world's biggest TikTok location. |
| 1:46.8 | It's number one. And so you start to see it in the corner of your eye. Then something else happened, which was a friend of mine, was on a layover in Dubai, |
| 1:53.7 | had sort of two days there and kept sending me photos of the city and its strangeness and also |
| 1:59.9 | its sort of massiveness, its giganticness. |
| 2:03.0 | In what ways? |
| 2:03.7 | skyscrapers. I mean, huge skyscrapers, sort of everywhere and they flow out of the desert and |
| 2:08.2 | they're very haphazard from street level. It looks quite strange, strange sort of smashed |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from [email protected], and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of [email protected] and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.