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The Big Personality Test: A Child Of Our Time Special

91Èȱ¬ One

What kind of person are you? Does your personality shape your life, or does your life shape your personality? This year, Professor Robert Winston and Sophie Raworth present two studio event programmes from a giant 'personality lab' as Child Of Our Time continues its fascinating insight into what makes us who we are.

For the first time, the Child Of Our Time questions will be put to the whole nation in The Big Personality Test – based on the results from Lab UK's huge nationwide online experiment, looking set to be the biggest scientific survey of British personality ever carried out.

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Who Needs Dads?

91Èȱ¬ Four

Who Needs Dads? takes as its starting point the oft-used phrase "every child needs a father" and explores what makes them so important. Child psychologist Laverne Antrobus investigates the psychology of families, and also some of the extraordinary biological changes that occur in both fathers and their children, that help explain why fathers play such a vital role in raising a family.

Who Needs Dads? is part of the Fatherhood season on 91Èȱ¬ Four.

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The Age Of The Genome

91Èȱ¬ Radio 4

Mapping the human genome 10 years ago was a dramatic achievement but it also highlighted quite how little is understood about the dazzlingly sophisticated mechanism of inheritance that characterises life on this planet, and in particular human beings.

In this major four-part series, Richard Dawkins tells the story of the project to map the genome and takes listeners beyond the selfish gene to the latest research and discoveries in DNA.

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Eyewitness

91Èȱ¬ Two

Ten members of the public are put through a series of realistic mock crimes and investigations. Through their eyes, we see how the police really investigate crimes and the special scientific techniques they employ to find their way through the complex web of human memory. Produced with unprecedented access to Greater Manchester Police, the series uses expert psychologists to unpick the mystery of the human memory and give a compelling insight into this intriguing area.

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