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Big Problems with Helen Keen

Series 1

Love

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 8 months

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. Show less

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