Welcome to the Dear Love to a podcast, sponsored by cook 100 degree boiling hot water straight from your kitchen tap.

On today's podcast, I'm going to be trying to answer the question.

What does it mean to be human?

And to help me answer this question, is author and journalist Will Stour, who's done quite a bit on this subject. He's been on the podcast

before, done a fantastic podcast, which we repeated twice because we loved it so much about his book

Selfie. And the reaction to that has been phenomenal, by the way. The reason I'm discussing

this is I've struggled during lockdown. I've discussed this on Sunday brunch. The reaction has been

absolutely huge. And it got me thinking about what my problems were. And I think my problems were,

I'm not sure what it is to be human anymore. But anyway, let's discuss this with Will. Hi,

Will. How are you? I'm good. Thanks, Tim. How are you doing?

Well, yeah, I'm all right. I'm frustrated because we're, I, someone told me we've gone into the fifth month of lockdown. I'm not sure that. Are we in the fourth? We must be in the

fourth. Yeah, no, it's got before, surely. When do we start? We started in March, March, 8th, June, July. Yeah, four, we're in four.

And we're doing this in July.

So we're in the fourth month of the lockdown.

How are you anyway?

Are you finding it productive?

Yeah, too productive.

You know, like I've got, I'm writing my next book and, you know, I've just sort of been forced into this kind of almost like a monk-like form of working where it's just bed right, bed right, bed right, like they probably did in the medieval

times and it's kind of missing getting out there having meetings, missing my Starbucks.

Yeah.

It's getting a bit intense now.

Month four, I'm just beginning to feel like a bit like a robot.

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