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This week, we released the first episodes of two-part stories on both Criminal and This is Love! You can listen to the second parts of both episodes early - they’re available right now - by signing up for Criminal+: buff.ly/4CkHWPU.

“All the women say, ‘Somebody funny, somebody kind, somebody to do things with.’ It’s not actually that much to ask and yet that’s the quest that obsesses us our whole lives.” Kitty Drake takes us behind the scenes of The Guardian’s Blind Date column. buff.ly/VB59Oyh

If you listened to our most recent episode and you’re ready to hear more blind date stories from the daters themselves, you can access our next episode a week early! Join Criminal Plus to listen now: buff.ly/zWCD6bu

When The Guardian sends two strangers on a blind date, the last question they have to answer for the newspaper column is “Would you meet again?” We asked people how their dates went – and what happened next. New today: buff.ly/Pg9YTJY

Phoebe: Do you think you ever would have met each other and dated without The Guardian? Solomon: Nope. Why would we? We're a hundred miles apart. Listen to our latest: buff.ly/9ymeQAo

After The Guardian set Shelagh and Tony up on a blind date, they decided to go out again. And for their third date, they did something a little unusual. “I sent Tony an email going, ‘What are you doing next week? Do you want to come to Rome?’" buff.ly/9ymeQAo

“We both knew that one of the questions was ‘Did you guys kiss?’ We were like, ‘Oh, let's just check that one off.’” New this week: stories behind the Blind Date column in The Guardian. buff.ly/9ymeQAo

When Lewis went on a blind date for The Guardian, he says his date kept pulling his phone out to take notes. “The next day after the date, he messaged me to say he could send his notes if I wanted. But I thought – I don't think I want to see them.” buff.ly/9ymeQAo

A few years after her husband died, Shelagh emailed The Guardian for a blind date. And on the date, she was surprised by how she felt. “I thought, ‘This is the first time in years that I feel like I want to be here. I feel comfortable in this place.’” buff.ly/9ymeQAo

Terence McPherson and Shawnika Giger met at a party in Atlanta, and went on their first date a few weeks later. Things were going well, until they started to talk about money. New today: buff.ly/xe3JOrJ

A blunt conversation about what happens to a relationship when one person has a lot of money and the other doesn’t. Listen: buff.ly/UTc2kuR

When you and the person you love have different definitions of the word “broke.” A story about love and money, from our friends at This Is Uncomfortable from @marketplace. buff.ly/UTc2kuR

Since they first opened up about how complicated money can make things in a relationship, Terence McPherson and Shawnika Giger have gotten married and had a son. They tell Phoebe that becoming parents has changed everything about how they talk about money. buff.ly/UTc2kuR

For the past 40 years, people have been sending Sally Winey their damaged stuffed animals, and she's been doing what she can to repair them. "That bear's been with them through everything.” New today! buff.ly/R25v9QQ

Sally Winey, along with her daughter, Abby Cornelius, repairs about 1500 stuffed animals each year - often after they were chewed up by a dog, or an eye fell off. And, “there's always the threadbare love spots.” buff.ly/sHXulhm

When she was growing up, Sally Winey thought she’d like to become a fashion designer. Instead - she started designing teddy bears. buff.ly/sHXulhm

Stuffed animals often arrive at Winey Bears Repair with letters from their owners about what they mean to them. “It's not uncommon for us to call each other and be like, oh my gosh, I was just crying reading this.” buff.ly/sHXulhm

Mari Peloquin's teddy bear, Beddy, has been with her for almost 70 years. When he started to fall apart, she decided to send him across the country to be repaired. When he arrived back to her, she told us, "I wasn't expecting him to look so beautiful." buff.ly/sHXulhm

In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt went hunting in Mississippi - and famously refused to shoot a bear that had been injured and tied to a tree. A year later, a Brooklyn couple started selling stuffed bears called “Teddy’s bears.” Listen to our latest: buff.ly/sHXulhm

Augustine Palermo got a stuffed rabbit named Hop Hop when he was little. He went with him everywhere. After their dog chewed Hop Hop up, Augustine's mother sent him to Sally Winey to be fixed. "You can't replace that. It has to be repaired." buff.ly/ehruF38