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Radio 4,3 mins

Can boredom drive you to self-torture?

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David Mitchell talks to Professor Sherry Turkle about the dying art of being able to deal with boredom, and how mobile phones are contributing to the downward spiral. First broadcast on Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners, 6 January 2016.

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