134: Try, Fail and Fail Again? How Embarrassing!
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134: Try, Fail and Fail Again? How Embarrassing!

Ash has a big theory about our growing fear of cringe. How does the internalisation of secondhand embarrassment change our behaviour? Is it possible that to be cringe is to be free? Plus: advice for a listener who’s become scared of sex.

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Music by Matt Huxley.

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