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David Hendy asks if revealing TV shows have increased interest in others' private lives.

David Hendy asks if watching revealing TV programmes has made us more obsessed with the private lives of others. Do unflinching close-ups on TV make us more compassionate?

The historian of broadcasting, David Hendy, explores the ways in which the electronic media have shaped the modern mind. 
Two seminal TV programmes: the American drama Marty, broadcast in 1953, and the BBC's Face-to-Face, from 1960, used unflinching close-ups to reveal human beings as flawed individuals. Did they make us more compassionate - or just more obsessed with the private lives of others?

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

David Hendy examines the ways in which the electronic media have shaped the modern mind

Historian of broadcasting David Hendy examines the ways in which the electronic media have shaped the modern mind

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