A Point of View

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Sara Wheeler ponders whether holidays ever really deliver the escape that we yearn for.

With another bank holiday upon us, Sara Wheeler ponders how we've moved from the regulatory two-week vacation to 'multi-break Britain' - and whether we can ever really escape.

Sara Wheeler asks whether trying to get away from it all is a futile endeavour.

'We go to all that trouble', writes Sara, 'up at 4.30, cancelled planes and trains and bent tent poles - only to find ourselves, boring as ever, glum and pink on a beach or glum and damp in a Welsh cottage!' 

But there are still good reasons, Sara argues, why so many of us want a change of scene.  And so 'off we go, in large numbers. At every opportunity'.   

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Katie Morrison
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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