Will Chalk
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5,151 appearances
36 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Will Chalk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The authorities in China say there's been a rise in marriage fraud, with scammers increasingly targeting single men desperate to find a wife.
The BBC has been to the heart of the so-called flash marriage industry, where matchmaking agencies arrange weddings in a matter of days.
The industry has sprung up in seemingly perfect conditions.
The country has a huge male-to-female gender imbalance and men are willing to spend big to find a wife.
As our China correspondent Laura Bicker reports, this scam is a symptom of a wider demographic crisis facing the country.
music signifies the start of what appears to be a love story.
the romantic soundtrack, 37-year-old Wang Zhuang is pictured smiling and holding hands with his fiancée after handing over most of his life savings to a matchmaking agency.
How many women did you meet before you chose your bride?
How long after that meeting were you married?
why they call this a flash marriage, a booming industry in China.
During their wedding ceremony, the pair pledged to build a new life.
He also handed her thousands of pounds as a bride price, a traditional Chinese marriage custom.
It wasn't long before he realised even her age was fake.
He discovered she'd been married three times, had three kids and was deeply in debt.
He went back to confront the matchmaking firm, only to find the building empty.
They too had disappeared with his money.
We toured a warren of offices trying to find an agency to talk to us.
One eventually agreed.
So after our matchmaker interview, one of his colleagues was not pleased and we had to leave quite quickly.
Although he says he is a legitimate business owner, that he's there to try to match as many people as possible and to ensure that his clients have some kind of background check,
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