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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Jon Culshaw

Susy Kane

Jenny Laville

Lloyd Langford

Carrie Quinlan

Katie Tyrrell

Big Problems with Helen Keen: Series 2: Personality

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Helen Keen ponders why we have a personality.

Who are we? Why do we have a personality? And does our environment shape it? With Jon Culshaw and Susy Kane. From 2017.

Who are we? 

Why do we have a personality? 

Do different brains give us different personalities? 

Does our environment shape our personality? 

Is, as they believed in Shakespeare's day, the liver still the seat of the passions? 

Comedy series looking at the biggest problems our species has faced since the beginning of time - and offering some incredible, absurd and possible scientific solutions.

Starring Helen Keen

With:

Jon Culshaw
Susy Kane

Written by Helen Keen, Jenny Laville, Lloyd Langford and Carrie Quinlan and special thanks to Professor Richard Wiseman.

Produced by Katie Tyrrell

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2017.

Big Problems with Helen Keen: Series 2

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

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