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A BBC Radio 4 documentary allows young people to speak directly about their experiences of the pandemic
Adults, Almost mixes anecdotes and interviews with clips recorded in teenagers’ homes, as well as musical and spoken word sequences. There has been much hand-wringing about how lockdowns have affected children and young adults in Britain. But rarely do we hear directly from teenagers themselves about how they’ve felt in the pandemic. This eccentric, delightfully chaotic documentary (8 June, 11am) from Company Three youth theatre is a vivid portrait of adolescent experiences of the past year. Described as a “time capsule”, it has the feel of an audio collage, mixing anecdotes and interviews with clips recorded in teenagers’ homes, and musical and spoken word sequences.
Why Tim Key’s poems are the only thing getting me through lockdown Matt Boytwitch, Rishi Perfect, Bohnson on a swing in the Downing Street rose garden – the comedian has produced some of the greatest political cartoons of the pandemic. The poet and comedian Tim Key is not a political man. He can express opinions on the government one-on-one, “when I’m on safe ground”, he tells me, but not, say, at a dinner party. Yet Key s poems are some of the greatest political cartoons of the pandemic. Those he wrote in the past year – roughly one per day
– fell broadly into two categories: the things that people were doing at home during lockdown, and the things being done on the 5pm broadcasts, every day, at No 10, in the room with the flowery carpet.