Rebecca Stott explores some new experiments in collective living.

'I've begun to wonder,' she writes, 'whether our current crises of social care, childcare, energy, climate, housing could be the catalyst that makes some of us rethink the solitary ways we live...to search for more practical, affordable and sustainable alternatives to the nuclear single-family household?'

Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith