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Radio 4,22 Jul 2011,10 mins

What's in a marriage

A Point of View

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Alain de Botton on our high expectations for modern marriage. He argues that expecting one person to be a good partner, lover and parent is - almost - asking the impossible. And he shows how different it all was before the mid eighteenth century... Producer: Adele Armstrong.

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