Summary
A Thinking Allowed special on 'love'. What are the origins of our notions of high romantic love? Was the post war period a 'golden age' for lifelong love? Has marriage for love now failed? Laurie Taylor hopes to finds some answers with the help of the social historian, Claire Langhamer, the philosopher, Pascal Bruckner, and the sociologist, Professor Mary Evans.Revised repeat. Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of |
| 0:07.0 | Happiness Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want |
| 0:14.4 | to share that science with you. |
| 0:16.1 | And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley. |
| 0:19.4 | I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that |
| 0:25.4 | calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.3 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a podcast for BBC Radio Four's thinking aloud. |
| 0:41.0 | Would our personal lives be considerably easier, |
| 0:44.8 | considerably less fraught if we decided to expunge that ambiguous word love |
| 0:50.7 | from our vocabulary. Find out. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello, it began with a telephone call. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh, Laurie, this is Simon from Radio 4. |
| 0:58.0 | As you know, we're entering the festive season and so it seemed an excellent idea to ask you to mark the |
| 1:04.2 | occasion by repeating four of your favorite editions of thinking loud. |
| 1:08.3 | Nothing too gloomy though after all which the, it's the festive season. |
| 1:13.5 | And my first choice was, well, it was easy enough. |
| 1:16.0 | The program from a couple of years ago, |
| 1:18.4 | which dealt with an emotional state |
| 1:20.2 | which many would regard as the antithesis of the year when family lawyers are rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of the |
| 1:41.3 | the bumper crop of divorces, which have become such a traditional |
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