“By my calculations, only about one in ten people throw open the curtains in the morning and feel glad to be alive. The rest of us wake up feeling as if we’ve been savagely beaten…”

Jeremy Hardy relates to his audience on matters ranging from the mundane to the extraordinary in his 4th series, imparting on his audience, with the sense of irony and hilarity that his won him two Sony Awards, the key to a better life: exactly How to Be Happy.

In addition to this life-affirming pearl of wisdom, Jeremy Hardy also delivers hilarious and often disturbingly accurate thoughts on his take of life’s most important lessons, such as How To Be A Man, How To Bear Up Under the Strain and How To Improve Your Mind.

Produced and directed by David Tyler, a Pozzitive Production for BBC Radio 4.