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. Would you like to cure your criminal tendencies? Find out how.

Sometimes only a few notes of music are quite enough to make your heart beat just a little bit faster.

Now it was of course Leonard Bernstein's music and Jerome Robbins choreography which created the masterpiece that is Westside Story, but what

undoubtedly added a special potency to the mix was the actual story. The classic

rivalry between the Montague's and the Capulets transformed into the battle between street gangs

between the sharks and the jets.

When you're a jet, you're a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last diet day

when you're a jet if the spit hits the fan you got brothers around you're a

family man you're a family man.

Now when I first saw West Side story, I was a junior lecturer in criminology and I remember I remember almost resenting the manner in which the lyrics so succinctly captured the appeal of the gang.

You're never alone, you're never disconnected, you're home with your own.

But as I found when I began my criminology seminars, the romance

attached to those sorts of street gangs all too readily overwhelmed reality. Indeed, some social

scientists looking at the British scene doubted if any of the street

groupings they'd studied even remotely resembled gangs like the sharks or the jets. They were, in

a phrase, not so much gangs as more like loose associations which became

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