大象传媒

Are some people just born lucky, or can we control our fate ?

Professor Richard Wiseman claims to have begun scientifically to investigate the concept of luck. In this programme, he writes about his interviews with over a thousand so-called lucky and unlucky people, and reveals why resilience and not the supernatural is what affects us all.

Playwright Annie Caulfield describes a brush with voodoo in west Africa; while sports writer Matthew Syed explains why his own sporting success was due in part to growing up in a lucky Reading postcode.

Presenter: Dominic Arkwright

Producer: Miles Warde.

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in November 2010.