Big Problems with Helen Keen

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Comedy. Helen Keen explores how human ingenuity deals with nature's big challenges.

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Peter Serafinowicz

Susy Kane

Miriam Underhill

Gareth Edwards

Big Problems with Helen Keen: Series 1: Other People

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Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane explore how to get on with everybody else.

Helen explores challenges posed by others, like emoticons and unspoken rules. With Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane. From 2015.

Helen looks at the challenges posed by other people. 

What are the unspoken rules that make society work? 

How can we make the internet polite? 

How did air-conditioners win an election? 

And are emoticons completely pointless ☹ ? 

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 the surprising ways we have devised to solve them. 

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.

Big Problems with Helen Keen: Series 1

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Comedian Helen Keen explores how human ingenuity deals with nature's big challenges.

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