Nosheen Iqbal

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3,581 appearances 45 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard today

Nosheen Iqbal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 45 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 12.

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Today in Focus · Is it cool to have no friends? · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

I mean, did you find it difficult to talk to anyone? voice-verified

Is loneliness something you've experienced often before, or feelings of loneliness growing up? voice-verified

I guess, you know, those kind of friendships, you know, particularly when you're young, they're so valorised in our contemporary culture, you know, I guess voice-verified

social media feeds and the films you see, the shows you watch. voice-verified

Did you learn to enjoy your own company in any case? voice-verified

Well, I guess it took a real act of bravery. voice-verified

I mean I d to move to a city on the other side of the world. voice-verified

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And I wonder w whether you had a a plan or a strategy to you know, like the advice that people often give is like, why don't you join a club or um voice-verified

Talk to the shopkeeper. voice-verified

I mean, d did any of that sort of resonate with you and how how does that sort of land when someone says that to you? voice-verified

That you began posting in April. voice-verified

There voice-verified

was this sort of a boom in some ways, it was really viral for people to be posting about solitude and I wonder voice-verified

Was that any of that an encouragement for you and did that content particularly resonate with you? voice-verified

Jessica Murray, you're the Guardian's social affairs correspondent and you recently wrote a piece about why young people today have fewer friends. voice-verified

And your reporting was based on new research from the Institute for Public Policy Research, which found that the number of young people in England with no close friends voice-verified

Has risen fivefold since twenty fourteen, standing at one in twenty now and voice-verified

A growing number of people saying that they're not happy with the friends that they do have. voice-verified

How do you understand what's going on here and what did you find out by digging into the story? voice-verified

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