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In this episode, teenage boys all over the UK talk candidly to Catherine Carr about their lives online. They talk about playing together - while being alone, about lockdown and about the differences they see in the ways that girls and boys socialise. Experts provide evidence for boys' online habits from social media to YouTube. Boys reflect on what life might be like in an analogue world and describe how social media can be used to build e-commerce businesses from their phones. There's also talk about porn, (and porn addiction), its effects on boys and their sexual relationships, and how sex seems to colour everything online.

Thanks to

DRMZ Carmarthen Youth Project
Cambridge Museum of Computing
Zach Rausch New York University
The Boys' Brigade (Glasgow Battalion)
Haberdashers’ Boys School
Brook Advisory
Craig Haslop University of Liverpool
Freddie Feltham The News Movement
Olivia Dickinson

Producer: Catherine Carr
Researcher: Jill Achineku
Executive Producer: Marie Helly

A Whistledown production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4