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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to rediscover some old-fashioned forms of fun.

Many of these were deliberately about filling time,

or some might say, killing time.

Modern sorts often feel we don't have time for such things.

But over the past few weeks, well, we've learned otherwise.

The circumstances aren't ideal, but the good news is that on the other

side of the world's lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, we'll have expanded our repertoire of fun.

If you've read much literature written before the advent of radio and television,

you've probably noticed something.

Authors such as Charles Dickens or Jane Austin or Herman Melville wrote stories in a slightly less economical fashion than modern authors.

The plots take longer. The sentences are more involved, but honestly, why not?

They weren't competing with cable.

People didn't have other things to do to fill the hours after dinner and before bed.

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