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Fit for Work Radio 4, 11am

Jolyon Jenkins investigates how, for 30 years, governments have attempted to get disabled people into work by tightening benefits rules. Jenkins explores how the roots of the policy came about during the Conservative government of John Major, using advice it received from an American private insurance company, and considers some of the consequences, including the fates of people who took their own lives after being deemed fit for work. How much suffering has been unjustly caused, and has a meaningful amount of money actually been saved?

Oliver Burkeman’s Inconvenient Truth Radio 4, 1.45pm

How come our lives have become superficially easier over time, while also getting fundamentally less meaningful? Author Oliver Burkeman, best known for writing humane books and newsletters about time management and personal goals, presents this series about our obsession with pursuing greater convenience. Today, he considers the contrasts between living in bustling Brooklyn and then moving to his new home in rural Yorkshire. With contributions from Coco Krumme, Jonathan Rowson, and philosopher Julian Baggini.

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