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Well, I'm pleased you've left your Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr sites to join us for this session on Hell is Other People.

How much contact with our fellow humans we welcome or perhaps we don't.

As our global population increases and technology changes, the world is becoming a much

more connected place with social media, text and email, encouraging us to engage with other

people day and night. Does it mean we're becoming more sociable? Or is this just overcrowding

making us more lonely, just in a high-tech crowd? And this isn't just an academic question we're asking ourselves.

It's been headline news in popular papers like the Daily Mail this week,

which reported a dramatic rise in the numbers of middle-aged people living alone,

double the amount who did so only a decade ago.

To debate how we really feel about other people,

I'm joined by the journalist

David Aronovich, the broadcaster and foreign correspondent Kate Adie, the popular philosopher

Julian Begini, and by the author and clinical psychologist Oliver James.

Now it would be very nice to hear a bit from our panel about what they really think about other people.

Now, Kate, do you like other people?

Yes, I do.

I think we are social animals and we like each other.

We like each other up close.

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