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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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’)
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
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?’
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.
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.
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
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’.
6 April 2019
Tiffany spoke to Jane Garvey about shame and shaming on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
2016
20 September 2016
Tiffany spoke about how Victorians invented boredom on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Making History’
30 August 2016
Tiffany spoke to Tom Holland about the history of anger on BBC Radio 4 ‘s ‘Making History’
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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’
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.
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
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’.