Does talking to strangers make you happier?

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I'm Dr Michael Mosley and in my Just One Long Thing podcast series, I'll be chatting to doctors and scientists

we'll be covering topics like sleep exercise happiness and staying young with each of

our experts choosing a health hack they claim is the single most effective way you can improve your life

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Welcome to my new series, I can school you, a show all about school and education.

I made two big promises when I pitched this show, the first being that I would fix the entire

British school system. A big ask, I know, for a 30 minute comedy show.

Let me tell you, I tried my darned hardest.

Unfortunately, I have no real qualifications in this field.

In fact, I have very little experience of the education system outside the years

1993 to 2007 during which I was a child. And I wasn't a child analyzing the system critically. I wasn't trying to change it from within.

The second promise I made was that I would be attempting to do a math GCSE exam paper live on stage for the

entirety of the recording, which to be fair has never been done before. That's always exciting something that's never been done before you know like

Darren Brown's Russian roulette and what could be a similar level of high stakes to a man potentially blowing his own brains out live on national TV other than me

attempting to do a test design for 16 year olds.

I can both those ideas due to time constraints technical limitations didn't know my

candidate number

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