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Richard Wiseman, Annie Caulfield and Matthew Syed examine luck and our influence over it.

Richard Wiseman, Annie Caulfield and Matthew Syed join Dominic Arkwright to examine luck and our influence over it. From November 2010.

Are some people just born lucky, or can we control our fate ? 

Professor Richard Wiseman claims to have begun scientifically to investigate the concept of luck. In this programme, he writes about his interviews with over a thousand so-called lucky and unlucky people, and reveals why resilience and not the supernatural is what affects us all. 

Playwright Annie Caulfield describes a brush with voodoo in west Africa; while sports writer Matthew Syed explains why his own sporting success was due in part to growing up in a lucky Reading postcode.

Presenter:  Dominic Arkwright 

Producer:  Miles Warde.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.

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