A Point of View - What's in a marriage
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.
Published on Friday, 22nd July 2011.
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