Permanently Restless
With another bank holiday upon us, Sara Wheeler ponders how we've moved from the regulatory two-week vacation to 'multi-break Britain' - and whether we can ever really escape.
Sara Wheeler asks whether trying to get away from it all is a futile endeavour.
'We go to all that trouble', writes Sara, 'up at 4.30, cancelled planes and trains and bent tent poles - only to find ourselves, boring as ever, glum and pink on a beach or glum and damp in a Welsh cottage!'
But there are still good reasons, Sara argues, why so many of us want a change of scene. And so 'off we go, in large numbers. At every opportunity'.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Katie Morrison
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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- Sun 26 May 2024 08:48成人快手 Radio 4 FM
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