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Radio 4,15 Jun 2026,45 mins

Social media to be banned for under-16s

World at One

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The Prime Minister says the ban will come into force next Spring. Will it work? We get reaction from children and parents. Amy Orben from Cambridge University, who has led a UK government review into the impact of smartphones on teenagers, shares her insights. Doniya Soni-Clark from the tech industry trade body gives her reaction, and the education minister Josh MacAllister joins us to explain more. Plus, the USA and Iran have agreed a deal to stop the fighting, to be signed on Friday - a global shipping company tell us how long it will take for global trade to bounce back. And playwright James Graham takes the polymath economist John Maynard Keynes for his next subject - Nicholas Hytner will direct the play and takes the World at One behind the scenes.

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