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Hello and welcome to Six Minute English,
the show that brings you an interesting topic or authentic listening practice and six new items of vocabulary.
I'm Dan.
And I'm Neil.
In this episode, we'll be discussing if happiness is genetic.
How happy would you say you are, Neil?
Oh, I'm pretty happy.
I think why do you ask?
Well, in March this year, the UN published its fifth world happiness report.
Is that the one that ranks all the countries based on how happy they are?
Oh, you've heard of it then.
Overall, there are 155 countries included and Norway came top of them all,
overtaking Denmark, which was the leader for the years 2012 to 2016.
Well, what about the UK then?
Ah, well, that's this week's question, isn't it?
Where did the UK place?
Is it A in the top 10, B between 11th and 20th,