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Smile. Give praise. The secrets to social success (still!)

Which self-help book do you think everyone should read? Plus the super-rich Swedes and the keeper who let in 31 goals.

Which self-help book do you think everyone should read? Oliver Burkeman - author of Four Thousand Weeks - chats about Dale Carnegie, who wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936. Plus the super-rich Swedes, the reconstructed Neanderthal woman giving clues to our past - and the keeper who let in 31 goals.

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Mon 13 May 202402:32GMT
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