Radhika Merchant has married her partner Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. When your Dad is the 11th richest person in the world, worth over $112bn, you can afford a wedding year, rather than a wedding day, right? After seven months of celebration, Marnie and the panel review the festivities to see if there is any science lingering under the ‘I dos’. Hear of Hindu wedding customs and superstitions, and why something called evolutionary lag might be behind traditions that make very little sense. Also, rings, but not the wedding bands. Professor Valerie Trouet, from the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research at the University of Arizona tells tales of the ancient circles found within trees harbouring secrets of climates past and future. Plus sleep divorce, why it might be a marriage saver, and finally putting to bed who has the best sleep pattern, the night owls or the early birds. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Panellists: Tristan Ahtone and Chhavi Sachdev Producers: Harrison Lewis, Julia Ravey, Alex Mansfield and Noa Dowling
In the early stages of Russias invasion of Ukraine, the finnish government launched their own campaign.
There was an energy crisis.
So please, please, please, could finnish people cut back on their sauna habit?
If youve never come across a sauna, its a small place that you make very hot, sometimes steamy, and then go sit in it.
Finns love them.
Most apartments have one adding up to several million dotted across the country.
And as I read over the weekend, the request to cut back went down badly because these are more than just sweat cupboards, they're enmeshed in culture and folklore.
For example, my favourite new fact is that as a pre wedding ritual, finnish summer brides run naked around their outside saunas to banish the ghosts of boyfriend's past.
I'm Marnie Chesterton from the BBC World Service.
This is unexpected elements and I'm joined as usual by my international panel of journalists.
In Mumbai, India, we have science journalist Chavi Sachdev.
Welcome, Chavi.
Thank you, Marnie Yasas.
And in sauna capital of the world, editor at large of environment magazine grist, it's Tristan Artone Hobbon.
Good to see you all again.
Tristan, do you have a sauna in your house?
I do have a sauna in my apartment.
I have never been tempted to streak though, so nobody needs to see that.
And Chavi, can I just check your greeting?
Was that greek?