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Single people make up a large proportion of the population in Britain. People are marrying later and less, getting divorced more often, and living longer. Although not all people who live alone are single, the growth of one-person households now outstrips the rise in the UK population - and is projected to continue.

And yet life in Britain often seems ill-suited to their needs. Being single is expensive and modern dating can be brutal. The idea that being in a couple provides greater happiness and fulfillment still has a tight grip on our collective psyche. So is it right to say that singles get discriminated against? And are there ways we might re-imagine life in Britain so that singles get a fairer deal? \\n \\nProducer: Ant Adeane\\nEditor: Clare Fordham\\nSound Engineer: Kelly Young\\nProduction Coordinators: Maria Ogundele and Sabine Schereck\\n \\nContributors:\\nAmy Key - Poet and Author of Arrangements in Blue: Notes of Love and Making a Life\\nSarah Harper - Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford\\nEmma John - Journalist and Author of Self Contained: Scenes from a Single Life\\nBen Arogundade - Author of My Terrifying, Shocking, Humiliating, Amazing Adventure in Online Dating\\nElyakim Kislev - Professor of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of numerous books about single life\\nSasha Roseneil - Sociologist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex