Are we getting the most, both as individuals and as a society, from our spare time? George Orwell celebrated the British for being ‘a nation of flower-lovers, stamp-collectors, pigeon-fanciers, coupon-snippers, darts-players, crossword-puzzle fans’. Our leisure habits have changed since then, but are we finding our leisure more rewarding as a result? Presented by the Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, this documentary explores the contemporary landscape of leisure, and makes some suggestions about how to get the most out of the time we call our own.

Spare Time was first broadcast on More 4 in Sept 2007