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Thinking Allowed: Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history

10/08/2011

Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history

With Laurie Taylor. Mobile phones and sexual discovery, also the 'terror of history'.

Are mobile phones today's bike-sheds? Laurie Taylor hears new research on children using phones for sexual discovery. Also, the illusion of protection from the terrors of history.

What role does the mobile phone have in showing off, hooking up and getting dumped? Laurie talks to Emma Bond about her new study into how young people use mobile phones in their intimate sexual relationships. 
Also on the programme the historian Teofilo Ruiz talks about the radical thesis of his book the Terrors of History: Is our struggle to find rational solutions to the fearful events of history entirely in vain? Is the idea of progress nothing more than a sweet lie? David Byrne also joins them to discuss whether anything can be done to address the cruel vicissitudes that history makes us suffer. 
Producer: Charlie Taylor.

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