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Resolve

Bidisha chats to her guests about their personal experiences of resolve, and considers its complicated relationship to happiness.

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Hope

In the first episode of our podcast series ‘Hello Happiness’, Bidisha explores our emotions – focusing on hope – with a diverse range of scientists, historians, artists and activists.

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Joy

Bidisha explores joy, from the psychology of our earliest laughs to collective and solitary pleasures like comedy, food and performance.

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Ecstasy

In the final episode of our podcast, Bidisha takes us on a journey through the highest of highs, from nightclubbing and the ecstasies of religion and drugs to mania.

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  • In the Garden of Eden, while the serpent curls around the tree of knowledge, Eve is about to taste the apple. Coloured etching, 17--.
  • The heads of four women wearing chignons with large curls attached to their natural hair; a chignon piece. Coloured engraving, 1875, after E. Thirion.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman who wears her hair in tight curls, a cap with feathers and a high ruff. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • The head and shoulders of a woman who wears her hair in tight curls, a cap with feathers and a high ruff. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • The head and a shoulders of a man who wears his hair short except for a mass of curls which fall over his left ear. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • The head and a shoulders of a man who wears his hair short except for a mass of curls which fall over his left ear. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • A woman sitting at a dressing table reading a book; behind her a maidservant fluffs up the curls on a wig which she is about to place upon her head. Etching by J. Gillray, 1810, after himself.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • Oestrus detection: "Flehman lip curl"
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