Is your mobile phone the best or worst friend you’ve ever had?

Over half term this week Radio 4’s Today is conducting an
exciting experiment: asking teenagers to abandon their
smartphones for a week.


On the podcast Amol discusses the monumental impact the
smartphone has had on our lives and what the future of the
smartphone might be with Professor Jim Ang, an expert in
Human-Computer interaction, and digital regulation campaigner
Baroness Beeban Kidron.


Amol also takes a moment to pay tribute to his friend, former BBC
executive Alan Yentob, who died last weekend.


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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson who
are both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Amol was
the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of
the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University
Challenge.


Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the
BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also
previously worked as ITV’s political editor.


This episode was made by Tom Smithard with Izzy Rowley. Digital
production was by Izzy Rowley. The technical producer was Ben
Andrews. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The executive producer is
Owenna Griffiths.