Bolder: Making the Most of Our Longer Lives

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Bolder: Making the Most of Our Longer Lives by Carl Honoré: 3.  Experience

3.  Experience

Bolder: Making the Most of Our Longer Lives by Carl Honoré

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As he charts changing attitudes to ageing, Carl Honoré pits prodigy against experience.

In his book, the journalist demolishes the cliche that creativity is the sole preserve of the young. Read by Darren Boyd.

How do we make the most of our longer lives?

Journalist Carl Honoré brought the Slow Movement to wider attention with his book ‘In Praise of Slow’. 

Now he charts a major shift in our approach to ageing, asking if creativity is always the preserve of the young prodigy.

He demolishes the cliché that creativity is the sole preserve of the young

Read by Darren Boyd.

Abridged by Eileen Horne.

Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.

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