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Feb 2021
24m 21s

Love and lockdown: The spike in divorces...

THE TIMES
About this episode

The coronavirus pandemic is keeping us all at home and many of us have been taking a long, hard look at our closest and most intimate relationships - and deciding to call it quits. What's causing all the break ups? And with the end of lockdown far from sight are more relationships doomed?


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Guests: 

-Katie Glass, Feature writer, columnist and freelance journalist.

-Emma Kenny, Psychologist and broadcaster.

-Lucy Gould, Senior associate at Stewarts.


Host: Manveen Rana.


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