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.

At my age should I really be wearing these trendy cut-off trousers?

Find out.

I'm putting on the top hat, tying up the white tie tie brushing off my tail.

Hello. Everything always seemed so effortless to Fred Astaire. His walk was a dance,

his clothes, a second skin, he was smart, stylish, jaunty, in a word, dapper.

I'm dooden up my shirt and price, putting in the shirts and does, polishing my nails.

Well, no one would ever call me dapper.

Rather like other men of my age, my clothes are a lumpy palimpsest, layers from different eras and different

obsessions, big fat soul shoes from the 60s, faded jeans from the 70s, a rough tweed jacket left over from my rambling days, a bedraggled raincoat

that I used to wear on the off chance I might be mistaken for Columbo.

It's all pretty unfashionable, so resolutely unfashed you that no one

much notices what I'm wearing. And that's fine by me. I mean, isn't there something aberrant?

Well, something slightly

unmaskulin about men who dress in order to be observed. But it's a good question

for my first guest today. He's John Harvey, a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, and he's the author of The Story of Black.

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