Laureate for children, screenwriter, author millionsarchitect of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and father of seven, Frank Cottrell-Boyce joins Oli Dugmore to discuss what childhood means in Britain today.
Over the course of two years visiting schools, prisons and asylum hotels, he found a country that has quietly stopped caring for its youngest citizens. He talks about the NEET crisis, furniture poverty, what summer holidays mean now for children who dread them and why the most radical thing you can do for a child is to sit on a sofa and read to them.
