Jeremy Vine: Children are entertained too much

 Children are “overentertained” and lose their imagination because they are never bored, according to Jeremy Vine.

Speaking at the Henley Literary Festival, the BBC broadcaster – and father of two – said that childhood boredom forced him and his brother, the comedian Tim Vine, to “go and invent things”. He added: “A lot of the time in my childhood, there wasn’t much happening... [but] boredom is good; boredom fires the imagination.

“I think the TV I was watching when I was eight years old was crap, but that was also good because I quite often turned it off.

“That creates a lot of space... and in the space you’ve got to use your imagination.”