I'm Sam.
And I'm Neil.
When Helen Russell was three years old,
her new-born baby sister died suddenly.
Looking back at that sad time,
Helen remembers making a big decision –
she wanted to be happy.
She became a bestselling author
and wrote a book called, The Atlas of Happiness.
She got married,
and even moved to the famously happy city of Copenhagen in Denmark.
But the sadness Helen felt didn't disappear,
and the longer she lived abroad, the more she wondered
whether her feelings were somehow connected to being born in England,
into a culture where, traditionally, expressing your emotions was discouraged.
In this programme,
we'll be investigating
how the way people express sadness is influenced by their culture,
and, as usual, we'll be learning some new, useful vocabulary as well.
But first I have a question for you, Neil.