Happiness Special – with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this series of special editions of BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing, Michael Mosley quizzes the world’s leading health experts on the best ways to live well. In this Happiness Special we hear from Dr Rangan Chatterjee - GP, host of successful podcast “Feel Better, Live More” and author of numerous best-selling books including “Happy Mind, Happy Life”. We hear the top tips that Dr Chatterjee swears by to improve and maintain good mental health and wellbeing. Could talking to strangers make you more content? Would eliminating choice reduce stress and improve your wellbeing? Is changing your relationship with technology the key to improving your life? And as this is a Just One Thing special, Michael ends the interview by asking Dr Chatterjee for his single most effective health hack for a happier life.

Series Producer: Dom Byrne Production Manager: Maria Simons Exec Producer: Zoe Heron Specially composed music by Richard Atkinson (Mcasso) A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds.
0:02.0	Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers.
0:06.0	But you sit down and be bright.
0:08.0	Celebrating women's voices.
0:10.0	You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn.
0:14.8	This is juicy. No limits, no limits.
0:17.2	Celebrating women.
0:18.8	Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out
0:24.4	where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself.
0:28.8	Lesson on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. You're back to listen to just one long thing, with me Michael Mosley.
0:41.0	Episodes will be released on Wednesdays wherever you get your podcast.
0:46.0	But if you're in the UK you can listen to the latest episode a week early, first on BBC Sounds.
1:06.4	Welcome to just one long thing, a series of special editions of my BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing, where I quiz the world's leading health experts on the best ways to live well.
1:10.8	From talking to strangers to boost happiness to aging disgracefully to live longer.
1:17.0	I'll be learning the top tips that the expert swear by to maximize your health and well-being.
1:23.0	And as this is a just one thing special,
1:27.0	I'll end each interview by asking our expert to choose the one personal health act
1:32.0	that they would say is the single most effective way
1:35.1	you can improve your life.
1:40.0	In this happiness special I'm delighted to be joined by Dr.
1:44.2	Ronan Chattergy, one of the most influential doctors in the UK.
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