Off the Page - Luck

Are some people just born lucky, or can we control our fate ? Professor Richard Wiseman claims to have begun scientifically to investigate the concept of luck. In Off The Page he writes about his interviews with over a thousand so-called lucky and unlucky people, and reveals why resilience and not the supernatural is what affects us all. Playwright Annie Caulfield describes a brush with voodoo in west Africa; while sports writer Matthew Syed explains why his own sporting success was due in part to growing up in a lucky Reading postcode. Dominic Akwright presents, and the producer is Miles Warde.