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Helen explores how to find the perfect mate and how bikes revolutionised sex. With Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane. From 2015.

Helen looks at love and the problems of finding the perfect mate.

Including the invention of computer dating; how we might chemically engineer love; how the bicycle revolutionised sex; having a row in Ikea; and a pair of romantic prairie voles.

Comedy series that explores the triumphs and disasters of human ingenuity.

Helen Keen looks at the biggest problems that have faced our species since the dawn of time, and describes humanity's incredible and sometimes absurd solutions.

Co-starring:

Peter Serafinowicz
Susy Kane

Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill,

Producer: Gareth Edwards

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2015.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 7 Apr 202522:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Credits

PerformerHelen Keen
PerformerPeter Serafinowicz
PerformerSusy Kane
WriterHelen Keen

Broadcasts

  • Wed 17 Jun 201518:30
    BBC Radio 4 FM
  • Wed 24 Jun 201507:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 24 Jun 201517:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 24 Jun 201522:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 25 Jun 201505:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 11 Apr 201811:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sat 19 Oct 201922:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 12 Jul 202107:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 12 Jul 202117:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Tue 13 Jul 202105:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 9 Feb 202322:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 7 Apr 202522:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra