Human Faces

Gender is not binary with many people identifying on a spectrum between the stereotyped male or female designations. However, you can’t deny that you judge every face your see. You judge if its a male or female person facing you. How are our perception of faces changing as non-binary gender’s are finally being recognised in mainstream society.

Our guest is Sukh Parhar, training facial surgeon and here to share a personal story on what its like to be a transgender person and in helping other people transitioning through facial surgery.

You use your face to connect with the world and people around you. Energy runs between each one of us and the world around. Reiki is an energy therapy that uses this power to help heal people.

Meet Sian Parker, she is a head and neck cancer specialist nurse who uses Reiki therapy to help patients and their families reconnect after having face changing surgery.

Visit www.serenewellbeing.co.uk for more information.

Have you wondered who is having botox? From those who want to look natural, to those who want everything bigger, body dysmorphia and treating facial disfigurement.

Meet Pippa Saul-Harrah, dentist and facial aesthetician who will share her experience of providing botox and filler therapy from her practise.

When you're faced with lifelong disfigurement- how do you and your family prepare yourselves?

Meet Andrea who is a Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist who looks after patients with head and neck cancer. Therapy can be disfiguring as well as change speech, eating and other senses. She has over a decade experience in this role preparing patients and their families with what to expect and how to improve their lives after diagnosis and therapy.

Can you tell someone's sexuality just from their face? How do some people have 'gaydar' and others don't?

Meet Craig and his experience of being a modern metrosexual man in London. We discuss what men do to look good and how our prejudice is influenced by what we see in faces.

Why are we so obsessed with selfies? How are we judged whether we do or don't take and share them?

Meet Harshini and hear how she balances her professional lives as a dentist and a model and her take on the social factors that shape how we value and document our faces.

Hear from the team what the face means to each of them alongside the breadth of ideas and questions this podcast series will delve into. Through humour, debate, intrigue and a little bit of wholesomeness, we will change the way you perceive the face forever.