A selection of programmes from Radio 4 on how to lighten your mood.
How do you raise happy, optimistic children?
Why do writers find happiness such a difficult emotion to capture on the page?
How to live a good life? Aristotle's guide on how to flourish.
Claudia Hammond looks at the government's plan to measure the nation's happiness.
Melvyn Bragg considers whether 'happiness' means living a life of pleasure or of virtue.
Does our inescapable suffering stem from our own greed and ignorance? Buddha thought so.
Oliver Burkeman explores how thinking more about death can help make us happier.