A Recipe for Love
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
What makes us feel in love? And can we make ourselves feel it? Biomedic Sophie Ward sets herself the deluded task of making a scientifically-accredited love potion, with the help of neuroscientists, evolutionary anthropologists, aphrodisiac historians, and a smell scientist who really likes pumpkin pie. Ingredients: a neurochemical cocktail of oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin and beta endorphin, a metaphorical "good egg", a splash of kindness, a cup of communication, five figs, an entire tiramisu, a punnet of stewed plums and a stick of liquorice. Prescribed by the following doctors of various disciplines: Dr Anna Machin, Dr Helen Fisher, Dr Viren Swami, Dr Kate Lister and Dr Alan Hirsch. Produced by Becky Ripley
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:39.0 | Come on in and get comfy. |
| 0:42.0 | This is seriously from BBC Radio 4 and I'm Vanessa Casile. |
| 0:47.0 | This podcast brings you true stories for curious minds and wild imaginations. Here comes something unusual, charming and |
| 0:56.7 | seriously fascinating. |
| 1:00.3 | What makes us feel in love and can we actually make ourselves feel it? |
| 1:08.0 | Today I'm setting myself the sensible and almost definitely possible task of making a scientifically accredited love |
| 1:16.4 | potion with the help of evolutionary anthropologists, aphrodisiac historians and a smell scientist who really likes pumpkin pie. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Sophie Ward, I'm a selling systems biologist and neuroscience enthusiast and this is my recipe for love. |
| 1:36.0 | Okay, let's take this back to the very beginning. |
| 1:38.0 | We humans are obsessed by love, |
| 1:41.0 | but why do we feel it? Why does love exist? So humans are incredibly |
| 1:46.9 | cooperative species and we do that not because we just happen to love each |
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