  | | | | During the pandemic, Tim Clare was sitting in his "miser's cave" of board games, when he realized there was something missing from his life.
"My first moment of real sort of panic was, Oh my goodness, when am I going to get to play games again?" Clare told The Sunday Magazine guest host Nora Young. "I'd sort of taken them so much for granted until that point. It had never occurred to me how much of the fabric of my life they were."
Clare is a board game journalist and author of Across the Board: How Games Make Us Human. He's travelled the world talking to people about games, and has found that there's something special about what a game like Catan or Parcheesi can do.
He says board games are more than just a fun thing to do on a rainy summer day. They can give people a chance to take control of their circumstances, especially during chaotic times, and make choices in a situation that likely won't affect their life one way or another. | | | | | | | | |  | | | | When Ian Coss decided to get married, every living member of his family who had ever been married had also gotten divorced: parents, grandparents, and all his aunts and uncles on both sides — some of them twice. Today, he has questions: What is the value of a lifetime commitment? Are we doomed to recycle the patterns of behaviour we get from our ancestors? Are we all just better off alone? Forever is a Long Time is a five-episode series that weaves reflection and original music through Ian’s conversations with his wife and divorced family members — a look at love with people who have made mistakes.
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