Boredom
Shahidha Bari, Josh Cohen and Sam Goodman explore the value of doing nothing.
Shahidha Bari, Josh Cohen, Madeleine Bunting, Lisa Baraitser, Rachel Long, and Sam Goodman explore the value of doing nothing and our wider experience of time
Josh Cohen is the author of Not Working: Why We Have to Stop.
Lisa Baraitser is Professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London and co-creator of Waiting Times, a research project on waiting in healthcare http://waitingtimes.exeter.ac.uk/
Madeleine Bunting is a novelist and journalist
Rachel Long is a poet
New Generation Thinker Sam Goodman from Bournemouth University has been studying the drinking culture in Colonial India.
You might also be interested in 91热爆 Radio 3's Words and Music exploring the idea that we are Creatures of Habit https://bbc.in/2E72xV0
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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Podcast: Boredom
Time and the value of doing nothing
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- Thu 10 Jan 2019 22:0091热爆 Radio 3
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