with 2 professional drivers from what's said to be the world's most beautiful car race and from ripping the wheel. of gripping literature the collector of worlds a must read novel about the real life adventure of richard francis but here is the reason you can trust us because of the money as a bots we begin with a visit to the fascinating world of the monday night in the humdrum the drab and the doll the annual boring conference that took place in the british capital recently my colleague adrian cam of kennedy was there and discovered subjects that normally might appear trivial and tedious can be given a new lease of life it will be here to explain how drudgery can get you excited in a couple of minutes but 1st it's getting boring. conway hall is the famous home of radical free thinkers in the heart of the mystery the boring conference is taking place here for the 9th time. founder james ward is master of ceremonies

and a veritable titan of tedium. and my name is james ward and i meet found of the pouring conference a one day celebration of the mundane people would marry a p.s. and their flipped the theme is boring but the content should be focused incorporate for example right sure weili is fascinated by the greenwich time signal. mike bates has a passion for postcards of nearby battersea park. joyce smith explains how she started collecting books certificates. the conference is sold out so who are these people and why are they wasting their weekend here. what's the big attraction here. being bored of

listening to people talking about things that they care way way too deeply about i'm a nerd i enjoy science i enjoy competing and things like that the trivial the monday my straight the most boring thing is the lunch break that's quite which is thankfully over james tittering term likes to walk in straight lines for his film underfoot he paused once a minute to take a 5 2nd shot off the ground i think beginning to take her child i. lucy australia's paper on the smell of laundry is accompanied by a video of a washing machine cycle. and live and dump a bit of audience participation hans how intense is it does it remind you james wood has generously allowed me to take to the stage myself to bestow

a prize most boring. at the boring conference. goes to joy smith could try. putting work on book certificates. at the end of the day i've gathered a lot of fun facts kind of pleasant now and made a lot of new friends. think i could be boring i think given enough practice because he could get by you a boring person. is boring. it's cool. we've managed to chair him away from his stamp collection kev it is here adrian was the conference boring enough for you while there were moments of genuine boredom but much of it was surprisingly interesting i learnt

a lot about the strength tests for these boxes for example the tests measured the resistance of the box to bursting but was late so replaced by the edge crush test because boxes were increasingly being stacked and it was important to know whether the box and the boat some of the stack could withstand all that weighing. really let's move swiftly on i think you've been affected by that you've also identified a boring trend well i think the success of the conference and the rise of or import costs is testimony to a hunger for tedium the podcasts sleep with me is downloaded free 1000000 times a month in fashion is a trend for the color beige so well done robin boring laundry is a big thing and norm call which began as a bit of a joke is now gone mainstream norm core of course says rejects collectivity you

can wear something boring you don't have to wear something exciting so that's a very important trend young people also rejecting at least eventual holidays in favor of offline holidays where you can't do anything when you have no 5 reception surely in reality boredom should be avoided at all costs no border mean actually a good thing a recent study showed that people who are given a boring task sorting red and green beans into separate piles did much better on creativity tests that followed also the beneficial effects of boredom a borne out by many famous exam. paul's for example. famously took a year off high school and just wandered off a loafing around aimlessly he later said that creativity is the residue of time

wasted steve jobs apple found was also a pioneer of norm core as we say and he said boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity and out of curiosity comes everything kerry says briefly if people want to embrace the boring a few tips well good start is to go offline a default activity faithful trying to avoid boredom is playing with phones but washing up without a dishwasher drying up using an old fashioned tea towel ironing shirts there are many many ways to get bored most of them are cheap and environmentally friendly eugene i'm afraid you haven't been borg and thank you anyway. now a car race like that while the media combines beautiful italian countryside and stunning traditional architecture with painstakingly restored vintage cars it's an enjoyment

for days and to take your car has to have been produced before 957 we joined 2 professional racing drivers in a classic mercedes sports car with go indoor. leave it to italy to make car racing look this good to me is nothing if not stylish in the 1957 mercedes 300 s l l in new york and zefi a flourish from germany to professional race car drivers together for 4 days through the heart of the bloody top. staff it's a real challenge for both of us an 18 year old driving to the $2000000.00 euro column at the start of the it's not bad right. eleanor is one of europe's most successful female racecar drivers. is a few flourish as a rising star a year ago she was lucky to survive a major crash in macau but that didn't stop her dream of piloting

a formula one racer and she won't be stopped today you can. take something with the i asked her if she wanted me to try she said and i'm 18 years old and i get to drive this com what do you think so i said all right i'm stuck in the passenger seat but i remember i used to be the same way. i could you. it's the co-pilot's job to find the correct route then to make sure the old car makes it over the finish line safely. don't forget it was built in 1970 it's still free to switch to. one stage of the race can take up to 14 hours and a moment of carelessness is all it takes to get lost. in this battle or we got to rome and there will these cars behind us we took

a wrong turn and they followed we all had to turn around on the main road it was funny but we came 1st. in italy the mealie meal is a huge party effect children get the day off from school to go wave at the cars. it all started in 1027 back then it was just men behind the wheel female teams have only recently joined. the number up all women a much better drivers than men by way behind the wheel we go heavy on the gas we want to feel the vibrations of the power of the engine. driving through the regions of immediate romagna in tuscany is an experience for all the senses eleanor is participating in the 1000000 media for the 4th time but her younger colleague is still way ahead of her in one area. jeff is if you can see it taught me that it's completely possible to drive with total focus and still keep up with several

1000000 instagram tunnels because it. has a few fresh hopes her posts will inspire more women to get into motor sports so that more female teams will take part in the milling media and the sicko. richard francis was one of the world's great adventure as in the 19th century he was also a soldier a diplomat an alkie ologist a poet and was said to speak at least 2 dozen languages in the novel the collectors of worlds also try and buttons unbelievable life into believe a bull fiction resident but david leavitt's has more on our continuing series 100 german must reads. the book the hotel you visit the one with the roof actually you know they really need a new profile pic what about the one with the affinity for. what

was travel like before their world like in the 19th century travel wasn't fun it was dangerous and time consuming back then to richard francis burton was the ultimate traveler or as author earlier train of calls him the collector of worlds when burton travels to india as a british officer he dives into the kama sutra he learns new languages he even tries to speak to monkeys as a european burton isn't allowed to join the pilgrimage to mecca but that's no skin off his nose actually to pass as a muslim the skin has to come off somewhere else. you can disguise yourself as much as you want but you'll never learn what it's like to be one of us you can take off your disguise at any time but we are imprisoned in our scam fasting is not the same and starving. the collector of world is about adventure spiritual sexual and intellectual and it's about privilege likes to richard burton enough has made hindu

and muslim pilgrimages he's lived in europe and east africa he's one collector of worlds paying tribute to another. more on all these topics on the website at d.w. dot com slash culture by the way it's the 10th anniversary of the boring called next year so it should be especially tedious book now if you want to be with the in crowd and don't forget the comma is the page by for the.

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