Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of

Happiness Podcast.

For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want

to share that science with you.

And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley.

I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that

calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds.

I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a Thinking Allowed Podcast for BBC Radio 4. How does where you live affect your health? We have some surprising answers.

Hello, I sometimes ask my mother why it was we had a room at the front of our semi-detached house, which although well furnished with a three-piece suite and a glass display cabin it was never used.

It's the visitor's room mother would explain, but we don't ever have any visitors.

It's there in case, I was told.

But as I grew older and realized the room was, well, he'll realize it was primarily a defensive

bull worker, an outpost which allowed my father to conduct a net curtain inspection of anyone

who dared to venture into our tiny front garden, anyone who might contaminate our carefully dusted, well-hoovered, well-detlled house.

A house quite unlike those unhealthy back-to-back terrace ones in Bh bootle where the front doors were always open to

neighbors and brawling children and men from the prue and the football pools and

the local priest and everyone died young. Well that childhood association between illness and buildings came back to me as I was

touring a new exhibition at London's Welcome Collection called Living with Buildings, Health and

Architecture. It's an exhibition with historical and contemporary

examples which attempt to document the importance of urban planning on our

health and well-being and reason some genius at the Welcome Collection,

why not supplement the usual exhibition functions by inviting the renowned

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