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Free Thinking: 2014 Festival

Paul Dolan

Vincent Deary

Beatrix Campbell

Rana Mitter

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Free Thinking: 2014 Festival: Happy Talk: Beatrix Campbell, Vincent Deary and Paul Dolan

Happy Talk: Beatrix Campbell, Vincent Deary and Paul Dolan

19/11/2014

2014 Festival

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Rana Mitter and a panel consider 'how much self-knowledge do we need to be happy?'.

Rana Mitter is joined by Paul Dolan, Vincent Deary and Beatrix Campbell to consider 'how much self-knowledge do we need to be happy?'.

How much self-knowledge do you need to be happy - and what are the limits to what you can achieve alone? Paul Dolan, Vincent Deary and Beatrix Campbell ask why everybody from governments to therapists want us to be happy. Chaired by Rana Mitter. 

Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, a government advisor on well being and author of Happiness by Design. 
Dr Vincent Deary is a senior lecturer in health psychology at Northumbria University. The first book in his trilogy about how to live is called How We Are. 
Beatrix Campbell received the OBE for 'services to equal opportunities'. Her most recent book is End of Equality.

Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage Gateshead in 2014. 

All the discussions and essays from the Free Thinking festival are available as Radio 3 Arts and Ideas downloads.

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Events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

Series of events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

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