Introducing... Rylan: How to Be in Love - featuring Philippa Perry

Young Again

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Does ‘The One’ exist? How does our childhood impact our romantic relationships? Rylan and psychotherapist Philippa Perry take a deep dive into what could be holding us back from finding long-lasting love.

Philippa also shares how her husband of 33 years, the artist Grayson Perry, changed her understanding of what love could be.

How to Be in Love – Rylan has loved passionately, lost messily, and is now ready to rediscover what ‘love’ is. But does he need to look at love differently before he can find it again? Watch on iPlayer. Listen on BBC Sounds.

Host: Rylan Assistant Producer: Ben Johns Producer: Katie Grant Production Manager: Francesca Bassett Executive Producers: Barnaby Coughlin and Arron Fellows Music: Miguel d'Oliveira Assistant Commissioner: Will Drysdale Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts A Mindhouse production for BBC Sounds

Transcript

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0:00.0	What is love?
0:03.0	Is it chemistry, fate or a disaster waiting to happen?
0:07.0	Sometimes you mistake other things for love.
0:10.0	Join me, Ryland, on my new podcast as I ask experts and a few familiar faces what love really means.
0:16.3	Because it turns out it's a bit more complicated than happily ever after.
0:20.7	You should think of it as the daily commitment you make to someone that you care about.
0:25.2	Ryland, how to be in love. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.2	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:40.3	Hello, young again listeners, it's Ryland here.
0:43.6	I'm gate crashing this feed to play you a part of a conversation I had for Ryland,
0:48.1	how to be in love.
0:49.5	In this podcast, I embark on a mission to find love.
0:52.6	How can we find it and make it last? I chat to a mix
0:56.3	of experts and celebrities to help me in my own quest for love. You're about to hear part of my
1:01.5	conversation with psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry. As an agony aunt, Philippa frequently
1:07.1	advises people on sex and relationships, so she's perfectly placed to offer me some guidance.
1:22.9	Hello, Ryland. This is so exciting. How are you? I'm so good. So good to see you.
1:28.1	It's genuinely the biggest pleasure to have you on the show because you are probably the best agony on I could turn to for this type of advice. Would you agree?
1:40.4	Well, if you put me on a pedestal that high, there's only one way for me to go and that's down.
1:46.8	Face down. Straight on the floor. Straight on the floor. Despite that, I'll do what I can.
1:52.5	Philippa, I want to ask you a question, and I asked all of my guests this question, and it is, what is love and how would you describe it?
2:00.4	Well, there's lots of different sorts of love.
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