
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Two questions about love and heartbreak in this episode for our Valentine's special edition.
Jessica Glasco, aged 29, wrote in to ask about the power of love and how it affects our brain.
Hannah tracks down Dr Helen Fisher, who conducted some of the first MRI studies on love by putting besotted couples into the brain scanner.
Adam talks to broadcaster Claudia Hammond, author of Emotional Rollercoaster, to find out how psychologists have grappled with the messy business of love. And we hear why a small furry vole was thought to hold the answer to the mystery of monogamy.
Our second question concerns the pain of heartbreak - why does our heart ache? Can emotional hurt cause physical pain? On call is our very own agony aunt, Irene Tracey, Prof of Pain Research.
Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020.
4.8
716716 ratings
Two questions about love and heartbreak in this episode for our Valentine's special edition.
Jessica Glasco, aged 29, wrote in to ask about the power of love and how it affects our brain.
Hannah tracks down Dr Helen Fisher, who conducted some of the first MRI studies on love by putting besotted couples into the brain scanner.
Adam talks to broadcaster Claudia Hammond, author of Emotional Rollercoaster, to find out how psychologists have grappled with the messy business of love. And we hear why a small furry vole was thought to hold the answer to the mystery of monogamy.
Our second question concerns the pain of heartbreak - why does our heart ache? Can emotional hurt cause physical pain? On call is our very own agony aunt, Irene Tracey, Prof of Pain Research.
Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020.
5,389 Listeners
381 Listeners
7,902 Listeners
538 Listeners
344 Listeners
2,141 Listeners
899 Listeners
286 Listeners
1,925 Listeners
1,080 Listeners
495 Listeners
248 Listeners
401 Listeners
4,858 Listeners
292 Listeners
480 Listeners
674 Listeners
377 Listeners
134 Listeners
2,977 Listeners
70 Listeners
756 Listeners
1,005 Listeners
539 Listeners
612 Listeners
202 Listeners
118 Listeners
169 Listeners
278 Listeners
26 Listeners
1 Listeners