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Big Problems with Helen KeenSeries 2
Episode 3 of 4

Who are we? Why do we have a personality? And does our environment shape it? With Jon Culshaw and Susy Kane. From 2017.

Who are we?

Why do we have a personality?

Do different brains give us different personalities?

Does our environment shape our personality?

Is, as they believed in Shakespeare's day, the liver still the seat of the passions?

Comedy series looking at the biggest problems our species has faced since the beginning of time - and offering some incredible, absurd and possible scientific solutions.

Starring Helen Keen

With:

Jon Culshaw
Susy Kane

Written by Helen Keen, Jenny Laville, Lloyd Langford and Carrie Quinlan and special thanks to Professor Richard Wiseman.

Produced by Katie Tyrrell

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2017.

Available now

28 minutes

Last on

Mon 23 Jun 202522:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Credits

PerformerHelen Keen
PerformerJon Culshaw
PerformerSusy Kane
WriterHelen Keen
WriterJenny Laville
WriterLloyd Langford
WriterCarrie Quinlan
ProducerKatie Tyrrell

Broadcasts

  • Fri 3 Nov 201711:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Thu 24 Mar 202218:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Thu 31 Mar 202207:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 31 Mar 202217:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 31 Mar 202222:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 1 Apr 202205:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 7 Oct 202323:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 23 Jun 202522:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra