Evan Davis talks about trade-offs in the world of economics and business
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Evan Davis discusses positive thinking. Is it better to be optimistic in business, or realistic?
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Anna Ford explores treatments beyond mainstream medicine for BBC Radio 4.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
The Open University is teaming up with BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed for an occasional series of special programmes. In the first - due for broadcast December 26th 2007 - the city of Berlin is centre-stage.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Although seen as a natural option, can there be times when complementary therapies actually damage patients' bodies and interests?
Category: Health
The science underpinning alternative treatments can be unconvincing - but should that bother us, if there are positive results? Anna Ford investigates.
Category: Health
Anna Ford attempts to explain the rise in numbers of patients seeking treatment beyond the mainstream.
Category: Health
Laurie Taylor and James Hardie-Bick discuss the paradox of extreme sportspeople seeking the buzz , but not wanting to show the fear.
Category: Psychology
This week, BBC Radio 4's In Our Time broadcast its 750th edition. We've taken a dip in their archives to find five episodes that explore psychology.
Category: Psychology
In this transcript from Thinking Allowed, Laurie Taylor and guests discuss the role of the teenage bedroom across history - with a little help from The Beach Boys.
Category: Childhood & Youth
This weekend, BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs celebrates its 75th anniversary. Join us for a rummage in the archives.
Category: Media Studies
The characters in the world's longest running soap opera tell you who they are whenever they talk. Pour yourself a glass of Tumble Tussock and Rob Drummond will explain.
Category: Linguistics
The Bottom Line is the business conversation programme where the people at the top share their insight into what really matters. Presenter, Evan Davies, explains the format of the popular BBC Radio 4/Open University co-produced programme.
Category: Money & Business
Tim Harford, from More or Less, talks with Kevin McConway on why statistics matter and how they can impact the future.
Category: Mathematics & Statistics
The OU's planetary scientists spend time on Chesil Beach, simulating the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Category: Astronomy
Steven Pinker discusses his book, which claims that there has been a broad historical decline in rates of violence throughout human existence.
Category: Sociology
Younger men are more relaxed about kissing their straight friends without fear of "homohysteria". Is this a shift in what masculinity means in the UK?
Category: Sociology