Hello, I am Priya Hallworth, and this is The Group Chat Went Quiet, a show about friendship for grown adults who thought this part would be sorted by now. Here is the embarrassing bit. I studied loneliness for six years. I wrote reports about it. Then I took a job in Leeds, moved into a flat near the canal, unpacked my boxes, and realised on the Saturday night that there was not one person in this city I could text. Not one. I was 38. So this first episode is about what I did next, including a running club I was terrible at and a neighbour I stared at for three weeks before knocking. Later, Marcus joins me, who did all of this in Glasgow at 44 and has a choir to show for it. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.