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A Reflection on Worrying: Worry and Music—A Reflection on Worrying

4/5 Musician Tom McKinney on how his own worry runs much deeper than that of stage fright.

3/5 Historian Emma Griffin explores how parental worries have changed throughout the centuries

2/5 Professor Francis O'Gorman examines rituals and ceremonies that often accompany worry.

1/5 Emma Jane Unsworth explores modern communication and its scope to fuel personal anxiety.

5/5 How buying food in Paris is not just for the tastebuds, but also a serious part of culture

4/5 Joanna Robertson on buying dreams of wealth in Tirana in the aftermath of communism.

3/5 How shopping for toys in Berlin reveals an attitude to childhood that is unique to Germany

2/5 Joanna Robertson on how book-shopping in New York can be about intellectual validation.

1/5 Joanna Robertson argues that when Romans go shopping they buy into a local identity.

5/5 Writer Alexander McCall Smith on playing saxophone and the Really Terrible Orchestra.