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We all spend longer than we wish ready in airports, but we almost never discover anything about our fellow travellers or those who work there. In the summertime of 2009, however, Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around Heathrow, one of the world's biggest airports, having been appointed its Writer-in-Residence. He spoke with everyone from flight staff and senior executives to travellers passing through, and predicated on these interactions he produced this remarkable profile of life at an international airport and what it says about modern existence. Dealing with the renowned documentary professional photographer Richard Baker, he explores the mysterious and the mundane, and the reviews that inhabit this peculiar "non-place" that we are usually eager to leave. Taking the listener through the departures lounge, "airside" and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows along with his usual combination of wit and intelligence that hanging out in an international airport can become more useful and much more revealing than we might think.
