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I am regularly invited as an expert contributor on BBC and NPR radio, and on podcast discussions.
I made a documentary ’The Science of Baby Laughs’ for BBC Radio 3, it was Pick of the Day.

RECENT RADIO & PODCAST APPEARANCES

2024

4 October 2024

Tiffany was part of a discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking about the ethics and emotional values of reading with Elif Shafak, Rana Mitter, Gabriel Gatehouse, Janine Bradbury and Jonathan Egid , hosted by Shahidha Bari

BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking ‘Why We Read’

10 May 2024

Tiffany contributed to a discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking about care, communal living and reinventing the narratives we live by, with David Willetts, Will Davies and Elizabeth Oldfield, hosted by Matthew Sweet

BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking ‘Life expectations’

21 March 2024

Tiffany took part in a discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking about the happiness, the day after the publication of the World Happiness Report. With Sophie Scott-Brown, Becca Voelcker and Christian Krekel, hosted by Matthew Sweet

BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking ‘Happiness’

2022

14 Nov 2022

Tiffany took part in a discussion about polarisation in the digital environment, and the role contempt, pleasure, laughter and Schadenfreude play in it on BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human. Other interviewees were researchers Lea Boecker, Emily Cross and Sa-Kiera Hudson, and Olly Browning.

BBC Radio 4, The Digital Human, ‘Schadenfreude’

11 Feb 2022

Tiffany spoke about the history and meaning of regret in a 15-minute documentary made for The National Gallery London ‘The Pleasures of Regret’, presented by the philosopher of art Vanessa Brassey

The Pleasures of Regret, The National Gallery, London

2021

13 Sept 2021

Tiffany took part in a discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Start The Week about consciousness and emotions with the neuroscientist Anil Seth and opera director Oliver Mears, presented by Tom Sutcliffe

BBC Radio 4, Start The Week

22 July 2021

Tiffany talked about what makes her happy (art!) and the meaning of happiness with Bidisha for Wellcome Collection’s podcast series, ‘Hello Happiness’. She appears in episodes ‘Hope’. Other guests include neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barett and BLM activist Ndumiso Peter Ndlovu (‘Dee’)

https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/hope

13 July 2021

Tiffany spoke about the history of sighing and love sickness in a discussion on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking alongside saxophonist Soweto Kinch, breath expert James Nestor, and activist Imani Jacqueline Brown, hosted by Lisa Mullen

BBC Radio 3, Free Thinking, ‘Breathe’

22 April 2021

Tiffany spoke to author Nathan Filer about the importance of thinking on a granular level about emotions, and recognising the histories that shape how we see them, in his podcast series ‘Why Do I Feel?’

‘Why Do I Feel?’, a podcast by Nathan Filer

2 March 2021

Tiffany spoke about girlhood friendship and the history of boarding school stories on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’, with Chisomo Kalinga and Elspeth Mitchell, presented by Shahidha Bari.

 BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, ‘Girls’

2020

24 November 2020

In the midst of lock-down, with so many zoom calls and work meetings taking place in bedrooms – and even from beds and in pyjamas – Tiffany spoke about the history of the bedroom as a once public space, on BBC Free Thinking, presented by Matthew Sweet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pmsl

8 January 2020

Tiffany discussed the early twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the role language plays in shaping our experience of sensation and feeling on BBC 3’s Free Thinking, with philosophers Stephen Mulhall and Denis McManus, presented by Shahidha Bari

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d04n

2019

8 July 2019

Tiffany spoke about why we take pleasure in other people’s misfortunes, and how this shapes political life on the BBC World Service, ‘The Why Factor’.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csytzp

6 April 2019

Tiffany spoke to Jane Garvey about shame and shaming on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00040qp

22 January 2019

Tiffany spoke about envy and the pleasure we can take in other people’s downfalls, on NPR radio (US), WNYC’s ‘All of It’.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/counting-other-peoples-blessings/

2018

21 December 2018

Tiffany spoke to Ira Flatow on NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ about the history of Schadenfreude and why we should pay attention to this emotion in our modern age.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/is-this-the-dawning-of-the-age-of-schadenfreude/

5 December 2018

Tiffany spoke to Claudia Hammond on Radio 4’s ‘All in the Mind’, about why we seek out opportunities for Schadenfreude and why it might be good for us.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06tvxth

29 October 2018

Tiffany took part in a discussion about fairness and justice on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Start the Week’ with Helena Kennedy, Paul Collier and David Willetts. She spoke about the furtive – and sometimes very vocal – glee when unfairness and rule-breaking is punished, and tells us about the meaning of justice in our emotional lives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000xwq

30 October 2018

Tiffany took part in a discussion about being inspired by others and enjoying their pain on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’, along with Julian Baggini, Christopher Harding and Christine Murray, hosted by Rana Mitter

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000ytc

14 June 2018

Tiffany took part in a discussion on Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’ about music and love, speaking about the history of ‘erotomania’. Other guests were composer Debbie Wiseman, psychologist Frank Tallis and historian Fern Riddell.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6t06b

24 April 2018

Tiffany spoke to children’s author and poet Michael Rosen about the words we use to try to capture our feelings and what these words can tell us about how emotions have changed across time, on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Word of Mouth’. She was the sole interviewee and the programme was Pick of the Week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zxl8y

09 March 2018

Tiffany spoke on NPR’s Ted Radio Hour, one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world, about how we understand what emotions are. Other guests were the acclaimed neuroscientist and author Lisa Feldman Barrett,  and John Koenig, creator of the online project The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/591870448/decoding-our-emotions#:~:text=Decoding%20Our%20Emotions%20%3A%20TED%20Radio%20Hour%20We%20experience%20powerful%20emotions,about%20the%20way%20we%20feel

2017

18 August 2017

Tiffany spoke to the acclaimed author and agony aunt Philippa Perry about how people have always been fascinated by our emotions, on BBC Radio 4’s series The Age of Emotion

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0910svk

2016

20 September 2016

Tiffany spoke about how Victorians invented boredom on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Making History’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07vs2h4

30 August 2016

Tiffany spoke to Tom Holland about the history of anger on BBC Radio 4 ‘s ‘Making History’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07q7ylb

8 June 2016

Tiffany spoke on NPR’s WNYC’s ‘The Brian Lehrer Show’ about the values of expanding a super-specific emotional vocabulary and the concept of emodiversity.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/talking-about-feelings/

15 February 2016

Tiffany spoke to Bridget Kendall on the BBC World Service’s programme ‘The Forum’, about the different physiological explanations of anger over time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hwrh5

2015

15 November 2015

‘The Science of Baby Laughs’

Babies are a tough crowd. You blow rasberries. You pull faces. And then your hat accidentally falls off and you get rewarded with a joyful peal of raspy chuckles. So imagine if trying to make babies laugh was your job…

I wrote and presented this 23-minute Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 about the history of scientists studying laughing in infants, and what their work tells us about being human. It was Pick of the Week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06p4s5y

21 September 2015

Tiffany spoke to Jane Garvey on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour about anxiety, and why more women than men are still being diagnosed with the disorder.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0335gp7

16 September 2015

Tiffany took part in a discussion on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking on Emotion in Art, the other guests were Susie Orbach, Frederick Forsyth and Thomas Dixon, presented by Matthew Sweet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069y87q

1 July 2015

Tiffany took part in a discussion about touch and emotion, with the choreographer Siobhan Davies, the artist Jeremy Millar and the neurologist Jonathan Cole, presented by Philip Dodd, on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b060bvkr

2014

3 July 2014

Tiffany wrote and presented a 5- minute Essay on BBC Radio 3 about War Neuroses and shell shock on film during World War One.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02210lr

5 May 2014

Tiffany spoke to Jo Fidgen for her deep dive into the meaning and purpose of boredom on the BBC World Service’s The Why Factor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01wd03d

5 January 2014

Tiffany spoke to John McCarthy, about the ‘noonday demons’ who tempted early Christian desert-dwelling monastics into lethargy and despair, and how boredom became a modern malady in the 19th century, on BBC Radio 4’s, ‘Something Understood’.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nrnqr