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Jun 18, 2026 25 min

Frank Cottrell Boyce on modern childhood

from The Slow Newscast

This week we’re speaking to Frank Cottrell Boyce, the children’s laureate, who has spent two years visiting schools, libraries, and communities to discover what it means to grow up in Britain today. He’s written about it in a new book ‘A British Childhood: How our children live now’

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