Living online and IRL

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 9:45 a.m.

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What happens when real life collides with your digital existence \\u2013 the writer and \\u2018Poet Laureate of Twitter\\u2019 Patricia Lockwood talks to Andrew Marr. In her highly original novel, No One is Talking About This, Lockwood\\u2019s narrator becomes overwhelmed as drama in the human world encroaches on the life she leads online.

Roisin Kiberd is part of the internet generation and believes the line between online and IRL has become so porous as to become meaningless. From the lure of endless scrolling, to the glamour of self-optimisation and the boundless possibility of connectivity, Kiberd explores the ups and downs of this new reality in a series of essays, The Disconnect.

In a new series on Radio 4, Sideways, Matthew Syed exploits different ways of seeing the world to connect disparate ideas and offer new insights. He examines the online craze of \\u2018randonauting\\u2019 \\u2013 in which an app sends people on random adventures \\u2013 to unpick the misunderstanding of probability using digital and real life examples.

Producer: Katy Hickman

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