Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
Today I'm at the Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK and I'm here with an audience to talk about a subject that I think will be close to the hearts of anyone attending a science festival and I reckon to anyone who listens to the BBC World Service.
Now in my job,
I get to read up on new topics every week and then ask all sorts of people, all sorts of questions.
I get to be very nosy in a way.
You could say, I get paid for being curious.
So I am looking forward to delving into the psychology of curiosity.
Now I'm not the only person who's turned curiosity into a profession and we've put together a panel of people for whom curiosity is in some ways at the centre of what they do.
So they are Tim Peake, the astronaut,
test pilot and author and his lifelong curiosity took him to live for six months on the International Space Station and
while he was there he famously ran the London Marathon on a treadmill and is the first British astronaut to have walked in space.
We also have Gosha Gotswaska, who's a lecturer in psychology at the University of Bath.
Now, she researches some of the more unusual emotions we experience,
such as curiosity, awe, and surprise.
And Matthias Gruber is a reader in psychology at the University of Cardiff,
and his research focuses on the neuroscience of curiosity and learning.
Please welcome our curious panel.
Now Tim,
there was one moment on the International Space Station when your curiosity was particularly peaked,
if you'll excuse the pun.