Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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It's a very inspirational tune.
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Is it?
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Well, it's going to get us into the mood for the next item.
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Now, one of our listeners got in touch to say this.
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Tim, if you could stop thinking about your love life as a sexagenarian, I thought we might look into these numbers.
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OK, so this paragraph comes from an article written by academic Lynn Siegel.
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Most of the piece is her personal story of managing relationships over the decades, but at the very end, she adds these statistics.
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There are three points here.
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So let's take each in turn.
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Are there twice as many women as men who are single by age 60?
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Now, the obvious thing to do was to get in touch with Lynn Siegel herself.
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And she pointed me in the direction of research, which explains that in the UK, twice as many women live alone compared to men.
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I checked.
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And this is backed up by official statistics.
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In 2013, there were about 2.4 million women living alone over the age of 65, compared to about 1.2 million men.
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So that's the first statement.
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Let's turn to the second point.
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Are older men often living with younger women?
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Now, there's some evidence that men are more likely than women to repartner after the end of a marriage.
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There's also evidence that men remarry women younger than themselves.
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