Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
Charlotte MacDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So there's a lot going on behind the numbers and indeed behind closed doors.
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It may be true that there are a lot more single women over the age of 60 compared to men in this country, but that isn't a simple case of men pairing off with younger women.
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Women live longer on average, plus they seem less keen to go for younger men.
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Not to mention, we really don't know how many officially single people are actually in a meaningful relationship.
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Yeah, the thing that got me is that a million people is such a big number.
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That's more than half the population of Northern Ireland, a fifth of the population of Norway.
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Exactly, and loads of Iraqis have left the country to seek refuge elsewhere.
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So I expected that the population would have fallen sharply.
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Well, listen to this.
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There were 25 million people in Iraq in 2003, the year of the British and US invasion.
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But there are around 33 million people in Iraq today.
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And that's because there are many more births than deaths there.
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Patrick Guerlain from the UN's demographics team has been talking me through the numbers.
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I'm just at a wine shop.
I was expecting the shelves to be completely empty, but they don't seem to be.
So do you think there's a global wine shortage?
I'm a little bit perplexed if I'm honest with you.
I've been to a few different places now and there seems to be quite a lot of wine.
I'm just going to ask a few people coming out from these shops if they've had any problems.
Strange, but there's a global wine shortage.
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