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BBC Radio 5: Can Childhood Friendships Survive into Adulthood?

Friendship Lab founder Sheridan Voysey joins Naga Munchetty on BBC Radio 5 Live to talk about how childhood friendships can last into adulthood.

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Why aren’t we talking more about friendship?

How much does it cost if we treat friends as an investment in an age of growing loneliness? Perhaps as little as 10 minutes of our time.

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Podcast: The Art of Friendship - CPX

Friendship Lab founder Sheridan Voysey joins Simon Smart on the CPX Life & Faith podcast to deliver this message: friendship is an art you can get better at with the right help.

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Friendship Lab on BBC Songs of Praise

Friendship Lab's Sheridan Voysey is interviewed by Laura Wright for BBC's iconic Songs of Praise program.

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Can You Be Friends with an AI Chatbot?

With millions of people using ChatGPT to find personal affirmation, and apps like Replika allowing us to create our own AI Friend, can AI really cure our loneliness?

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Who Can You Call at 2am? BBC Radio Ulster

Friendship Lab Founder Sheridan Voysey joined presenter William Crawley for this BBC Radio Ulster panel discussion on adults and friendship, alongside Aine Toner from the Belfast Telegraph and

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Why Can’t Men Tell Each Other How They Feel?

Friendship can be confusing. Unlike a romantic relationship where feelings are expressly shared and commitments publicly made at things like weddings, friendship’s informality can make it hard to

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Don’t Take the Treasure of Friendship for Granted

Friends: they celebrate our birthdays, pop a cork over our new jobs, become bridesmaids and best men at our weddings. But fewer of us have them. In the UK, around 20% of Britons have no close friends,

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The Idea That Became BBC Radio 2’s Friendship Season

When the pandemic hit, Friendship Lab's Founder Sheridan Voysey had an idea for a documentary series. As a regular presenter of Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball Breakfast Show