Embarrassment
4 Extra Debut. Why do we feel and suffer embarrassment and what's it for? Journalist Lynne Truss cringes as she investigates. From 2016.
We all suffer from it, many of us work hard to avoid it and some of us love to talk about it. Why do we get embarrassed? What exactly is it?
It's different to shame and humiliation but at the time feels just as bad. We like to laugh about it which is why so much of comedy is based upon it.
Darwin thought it's what makes us human, Keats believed it was essential to love.
Author and Journalist Lynne Truss prepares to cringe through the archive of blunders, blushes and bashfulness and hopes it is not too embarrassing.
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in February 2016.
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