Solitude and Loneliness
A collection of programmes looking at solidude and loneliness
Isolation—The Digital Human, Series 3
Are our connected modern lives making us lonelier than ever?
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"It's easy to feel lonely when you're among other people"
Broadcaster Andy Kershaw talks about his personal experiences of loss and loneliness.
‘Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.’
Eleanor Catton reading from her latest novel, The Luminaries.
Solitude—The Why Factor
How far can or should we pursue solitude?
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Solitude—The Forum
When being alone is a blessing and when it is a blight.
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The Philosophy of Solitude—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.
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Green Deal, Empty Shops, Loneliness—You and Yours
Another Green Deal offer is snapped up, more empty shops and why is loneliness a UK issue?
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Nylons; Loneliness; Legal Aid for Victims of Domestic Violence; Call for Buffer Zones around Abortion Clinics—Woman's Hour
Nylon stockings, loneliness and older people and BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
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The conversation has moved on
Zeynep Tufekci tells us that opting out of technology may be causing social isolation.
The Lonely Cyborg—Five Hundred Years of Friendship
How the old and the young are navigating friendships through new technology today.
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Esther Rantzen on loneliness, Tracie Bennett on Judy Garland—Woman's Hour
Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland; Esther Rantzen on being lonely; men in childcare.
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Sham marriages; Feeling lonely when you no longer work; Insects for eating—Woman's Hour
Cricket cookies or ants for breakfast? Could they be the answer to food sustainability?
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Loneliness; Barbara Kruger; Honey & Co; Bad girls in fiction—Woman's Hour
Jenni Murray talks to conceptual artist Barbara Kruger about power in popular culture.
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Loneliness, Statins, Feedback on glucosamine and gut instinct, Cycle lanes and air pollution, Coughs and antibiotics—Inside Health
Is loneliness bad for you, who should take statins, treating air pollution and coughs.
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Penelope Leach; Women and gambling; Loneliness—Woman's Hour
Penelope Leach on divorce and children, and Archers' actor Patricia Greene on loneliness.
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