The Upside of Anxiety
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Anxiety has become one of the defining characteristics of our modern age, with millions of us suffering from its various damaging effects. It comes in many shapes and sizes - status anxiety, social anxiety, and more recently Brexit and Eco-anxiety. Figures indicate a big rise in its prevalence, particularly among young people and members of minority groups. In this editon of 'Archive on Four' Professor Andrew Hussey how this new age of anxiety has come about, how it compares with previous moments of national stress, and also why he believes it to be a peculiarly modern phenomenon. Hussey makes the case that while pathological forms of anxiety can be crippling, anxiety can also bring with it positive benefits - and rather than attempt to destroy it we should attempt to make it a useful ally.
Producer - Geoff Bird
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, I'm John Ronson, the author of So You've been publicly shamed. |
| 0:46.0 | This is my journey into the lives of the shamed, people ruined by a badly word to tweet or work faux par. |
| 0:55.0 | Along the way I turned from being a keen shame of myself |
| 0:59.0 | into somebody unsettled by this New zeal to judge and condemn after an very weak evidence. |
| 1:07.0 | That's so you've been publicly shamed, read by me, John Ronson, and a bridge specially for BBC Sounds. |
| 1:16.0 | Hi I'm Rhianna Dylan and this is seriously no matter where you are get ready for a listening delight from BBC Radio 4 |
| 1:30.2 | Do you want to hear the tune, please? We're living in a new age of |
| 1:35.0 | we're living in a new age of anxiety. |
| 1:44.0 | For me personally, emotions are always best conveyed through sound. |
| 1:51.0 | And if anxiety's got a soundtrack on a tune, for me at least, |
| 1:57.0 | then it sounds a bit like this. And the orchestra which has been absolutely silent throughout this whole movement suddenly blurts in with all the brasses |
| 2:20.0 | Imitating it stops just as suddenly as it started and you hear again |
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