Richard Layard answers tough questions about his new book Happiness: lessons from a new science (Penguin). This offers a vision of a better life, based on the insights of psychology, economics and social philosophy.

Richard Layard was founder-director of the LSE Centre for Economic Performance and intellectual architect of the New Deal for the unemployed. Andrew Marr is the BBC's political editor and author of My Trade: a short history of British journalism.

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