Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addicted To Busy | 20160915 | Oliver Burkeman asks if people have become addicted to busy. | ||
| Fetishising Busyness | 20160913 | 20170828 (R4) | Oliver Burkeman asks if we are talking ourselves into feeling overwhelmed with busyness. | |
| It's Not Busyness But Bandwidth | 20160914 | 20170904 (R4) | Oliver Burkeman asks if our problem might not be lack of time but lack of head space. | |
| The Busyness Paradox | 20160912 | 20170821 (R4) | There's a ritual of the modern workplace - one you've heard and most likely indulged in yourself. It's the call and response we go through when you ask a workmate how they're doing: 'Busy!' 'So busy.' 'mentally busy.' It is pretty obviously a boast disguised as a complaint. And our simultaneously grim and half chuckled reply comes as a kind of congratulation: 'Ha, better than the opposite.' When did we start doing that? As if he didn't have enough to do Oliver Burkeman explores this epidemic of busyness to reveal that it may not be what it at first seems. Producer: Peter McManus. Oliver Burkeman explores if the busyness epidemic is not what it at first seems. | |
| LAST | In Praise Of Idleness | 20160916 | 20170911 (R4) | Is the solution to busyness not to work harder but to indulge in a little idleness? |