Will Chalk
speaker
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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This is an industry where it's difficult to know, especially after just a few days, who you're marrying.
The agencies springing up in Guizhou are a symptom of a much bigger problem.
We've come to the countryside to get an idea of the scale of the problem.
China is facing a demographic crisis.
Up until 10 years ago, parents were only allowed to have one child, and there was a preference for boys.
That has left around 30 million men looking for a wife
in this country.
That's the equivalent of the entire male population of the UK remaining a bachelor.
The party is trying to get more people to get married, trying to get more people to have children, but it's having a limited effect.
Women in China can also afford to be choosy and demand a higher bride price.
In China, the family line runs through the men of the household.
It's seen as a family duty to get married and have children.
But this scam has left Wang Zhuang with few options.
again.
Fewer marriages mean fewer children at a time when China's population is shrinking.
It's a shift that's reshaping society and creating a challenge the Communist Party is struggling to overcome.
Laura Bicker with that report from China.
Now, are you really a pet owner if you haven't looked at your pet and thought, I wonder what they're thinking?
Well, scientists in Austria think they're getting closer to an answer.
They say they've worked out what's going on inside a dog's brain when it sees a human smiling or scowling.
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