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Thinking Allowed: Loneliness

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Loneliness - is it a uniquely modern emotion?

Loneliness - Laurie Taylor asks if loneliness is a uniquely modern emotion and hears about lives in Greenland which are  characterised by seperation & longing.

Loneliness - Fay Bound Alberti, Reader in History at the University of York, charts the emergence of loneliness as a contemporary emotional state. Also, Janne Flora, postdoctoral scholar at Aarhus University, explores the  deep connections between loneliness and modernity in the Arctic, tracing the history of Greenland and analysing the social dynamics that shaped it. 

 
Producer: Jayne Egerton

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