The Week Unwrapped podcast: Space dates, living apart and pub chaperones
Why is a Japanese billionaire looking for a ‘single woman’ to join him on a trip to the Moon? And what is a ‘sober chaperone’?
Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.
In this week’s episode, we discuss:
Space dates
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Japanese billionaire Yusaka Maezawa has announced that he is looking for a “single woman” to join him in a SpaceX rocket heading to the Moon in 2023. But how far has space tourism come, and is it a boundary-pushing journey to a new frontier, or just a fad for rich neo-conquerers?
Pub chaperones
Leading law firm Linklaters has launched a chaperone scheme to keep staff in check at boozy work events - part of a wider crackdown on the workplace drinking culture at professional services firms in the City. What’s behind the campaign and will it really work?
Living apart together
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What links Gillian Anderson and Peter Morgan, Helena Bonham-Carter and Timothy Burton and Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk? All three are (or were) couples who "live together apart" (LAT). The domestic arrangement is part of a growing trend for couples who can't live with each other, but can't live without each other either. A quarter of couples in Britain have a LAT arrangement, so what is driving couples into living separately?
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