Living Without My Smartphone

Seriously...

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A group of teenagers agree to give up their smartphones for 5 school days. The phones are locked in a box, and our subjects pick up their old style “brick” phone instead. What’s the best and worst of their smartphone free days? Can they cope, and what, if anything, do they, their parents and teachers notice? Rachel Burden has teenagers, and knows all about smartphone parenting. She joins our intrepid students throughout their week, and reflects upon the positives and negatives of a world where everyone can choose to be constantly connected.

Produced by Victoria Farncombe and Tim O'Callaghan Mixed by Nicky Edwards Edited by Clare Fordham

Transcript

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasule. This podcast finds the world's best
0:47.0	audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. Thank you.
0:57.0	What you can hear is the incredible sound of ten
1:00.0	of teenagers willingly giving up their smartphones.
1:04.0	It's particularly remarkable because like many teenagers
1:10.0	this group spend a lot of time on their phones.
1:13.0	My Tiktok average for hours per week is 42 hours.
1:20.0	I mean I'm trying to do the math so that's like six hours a day.
1:25.0	Yeah I spend too much time I want to talk it's really bad.
1:28.0	That is crazy anyone else what do you mostly spend your time on?
1:32.0	Snapchat definitely.
1:33.5	Texting people, going through people's stories.
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