The Kindness Experiment

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The Kindness Experiment: James and Granny Eves

James and Granny Eves

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Can we spread kindness and what good does it do?

Ella Scotland Waters is on a mission to spread kindness in her neighbourhood of Bristol by challenging people she meets to carry out an act of kindness for someone.

In this episode James who works in construction admits he was unkind to a woman who was shouting at him in the street.  He regrets shouting back at her but says that people get what they give. But then his conversation with Ella in the corner shop in the St Werburghs area of Bristol is interrupted by the same woman who barges past angry and distressed.  What happens when Ella and James intervene to try and make amends?

Presenter: Ella Scotland Waters
Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Maggie Ayre

With Professor Bruce Hood of the School of Psychological Science at the University of Bristol

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