Bonus: People Fixing the World
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A bonus episode from the People Fixing the World podcast.
Concerns are growing about the effects of smartphones on both adults and children, so we're looking at ways to reduce our dependence on these ubiquitous devices.
Presenter Myra Anubi attempts to ditch her smartphone for a week, while she finds out about a fast-growing campaign in which local parents get together to agree to delay buying them for their children. But Myra and her own daughter don't quite see eye-to-eye on the topic.
Plus Anna Holligan visits an innovative project called The Offline Club in Amsterdam, where people hand in their phones in exchange for a dose of good old real-life interaction.
People Fixing the World is a weekly programme looking at common challenges around the world and the creative ways people are trying to tackle them. Discover more of the people and projects trying to make the world a better place at bbcworldservice.com/peoplefixingtheworld or, just search for People Fixing the World wherever you got this podcast.
Presenter: Myra Anubi Producer: William Kremer Netherlands reporter: Anna Holligan Editor: Jon Bithrey Sound mix: Hal Haines
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the BBC World Service, this is the documentary, the home of original storytelling. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Myra Anoubi and welcome to this bonus episode of the podcast I host, People Fixing the World. and you're in for a treat because this is all about solutions. |
| 0:17.0 | People fixing, people fixing the world. |
| 0:30.0 | This is people fixing the world from the BBC World Service, a program that dials down on all the negativity around us and focuses |
| 0:35.1 | on solution stories from across the world. I'm Myra Anubi and you might want to pay close |
| 0:40.9 | attention today because I'll be talking about something that you might be using right now, your smartphone. |
| 0:47.0 | But do we use our phones too much? Well today we'll hear about one idea that's encouraging people to use them less and find out |
| 0:54.8 | about a movement that's getting parents to delay buying these devices for their |
| 0:59.5 | children. My daughter Zani had her ninth birthday recently and shortly before the big day |
| 1:07.1 | she reminded me that I had apparently promised to buy her a certain special gift. |
| 1:13.0 | You said he got me an iPhone 15. |
| 1:16.0 | Who said did get your night? |
| 1:18.0 | Daddy, did you say you're getting an iPhone? |
| 1:20.0 | Me? Never. never. |
| 1:23.0 | It's because she said she'll get me and I've 15 and the reason I really want to own is because |
| 1:30.0 | it's like my own mini world like there's avatar world. There's a YouTube kids |
| 1:37.2 | There's YouTube. There's um what's up messages. There's so much... |
| 1:43.0 | Do you need all those things. |
| 1:44.0 | You're just like... |
| 1:45.0 | I know, but like sometimes if you need your own space you can just go into your mini world. |
| 1:50.0 | It's just like having, like you can bring that mini world with you everywhere you go |
| 1:56.8 | Even to the toilet if you really wanted to no phones in the toilet now. We have an old phone that she occasionally uses to call her friends but I don't |
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