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6 Minute English from BBClearningenglish.com Hello, welcome to Six Minute English, I'm Neil.
And I'm Sam.
And we are sitting here in New Broadcasting House in the middle of London.
Would you say, Sam, that this is an isolated place?
Oh, no.
Not at all.
Isolated means far away from other places and people.
Does that mean then, do you think that you can't be lonely here with all these people around and all these things to do?
Ah, good question.
Can you be lonely in a crowd?
Yes, of course.
I think you can be because being lonely isn't about physical isolation.
I think you can be lonely anywhere if you feel that you're disconnected from the world around you,
if you feel that no one understands you.
If you are living happily in isolation in the Scottish Highlands, for example,
I'm sure you could feel lonely if you came here to London.
Well, loneliness is today's topic.
The BBC has just completed a big survey about it, which we will learn more about shortly,