The Winter Of Our Disconnect

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20110103

20110104 (R4)

By Susan Maushart.

How one mother imposed techno-silence on three angry teenagers for six months - and lived to tell the tale..

For anyone who's ever taken their phone to bed or sneaked a look at their Blackberry mid-conversation and any parent who has ever texted their child to the dinner table - or yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage - this account of a family's six-month, self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will also challenge you to take stock of your own connections, technical and otherwise. The news of the impending techno silence is broken to the family and is greeted with various shades of shock, outrage and bitterness.

Susan Maushart is the digitally-devoted, iphone obsessed mother of three teenage children - two girls and one boy.

Reader: Haydn Gwynne

A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

How one mother imposed techno-silence on three angry teenagers for six months.

20110104

20110105 (R4)

By Susan Maushart. The day of the big switch-off has arrived...

20110105

20110106 (R4)

By Susan Maushart.

It's half way through the experiment and it's time for a techno-free check up. Along the way the role of multi-tasking in our lives is examined and found wanting. It seems the only effective way to live your life is through a series of mono tasks.

Reader: Haydn Gwynne

A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

It's half way through the experiment and it's time for a techno-free check-up.

20110106

20110107 (R4)

By Susan Maushart. Susan examines the increasing obsession of Facebook.

05 LAST

20110107

20110108 (R4)

By Susan Maushart.

The end of the experiment is nigh. What has everyone learned? And has a techno-free life changed their ways forever? The whole family contemplate this as they rush en masse for their computers......

Reader: Haydn Gwynne

A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

Episodes

Episode	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
01	20110103	20110104 (R4)	By Susan Maushart. How one mother imposed techno-silence on three angry teenagers for six months - and lived to tell the tale.. For anyone who's ever taken their phone to bed or sneaked a look at their Blackberry mid-conversation and any parent who has ever texted their child to the dinner table - or yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage - this account of a family's six-month, self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will also challenge you to take stock of your own connections, technical and otherwise. The news of the impending techno silence is broken to the family and is greeted with various shades of shock, outrage and bitterness. Susan Maushart is the digitally-devoted, iphone obsessed mother of three teenage children - two girls and one boy. Reader: Haydn Gwynne A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. How one mother imposed techno-silence on three angry teenagers for six months.
02	20110104	20110105 (R4)	By Susan Maushart. The day of the big switch-off has arrived...
03	20110105	20110106 (R4)	By Susan Maushart. It's half way through the experiment and it's time for a techno-free check up. Along the way the role of multi-tasking in our lives is examined and found wanting. It seems the only effective way to live your life is through a series of mono tasks. Reader: Haydn Gwynne A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. It's half way through the experiment and it's time for a techno-free check-up.
04	20110106	20110107 (R4)	By Susan Maushart. Susan examines the increasing obsession of Facebook.
05 LAST	20110107	20110108 (R4)	By Susan Maushart. The end of the experiment is nigh. What has everyone learned? And has a techno-free life changed their ways forever? The whole family contemplate this as they rush en masse for their computers...... Reader: Haydn Gwynne A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.