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Owning your cringe instead of being a perfectionist!

Shanequa Paris and Calum Leslie help hack your life to make it better.

Shanequa Paris and Calum Leslie are celebrating you and your mini world cups! Maybe you're the undisputed champion of making the perfect playlist. Maybe you can book a holiday with an itinerary so good that nobody else has to think. Perhaps you can eyeball every ingredient when you're cooking and somehow it always tastes incredible! We're handing out (virtual) trophies for life's little victories. We want to celebrate the skills, talents and oddly specific things you're quietly brilliant at.

Plus why are we all so afraid of looking silly? Maybe you didn't dance at the party. Maybe you never posted that video. Maybe you gave up a hobby because you weren't instantly good at it.

We're talking about cringe culture, perfectionism and why we're so afraid of being seen trying.

Perfectionism expert Professor Thomas Curran joins us to unpack why we're putting so much pressure on ourselves to get everything right first time. Has social media made us more self-conscious? Why does 'cringe' feel so powerful? And what happens when we stop worrying about what everyone else thinks?

Produced in Salford by Audio Always for BBC Radio 1.

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Music Played

  • beabadoobee

    Sun Has Set

    • Dirty Hit.

  • Bella Kay

    iloveitiloveitiloveit

    • iloveitiloveitiloveit.
    • 2026 Bella Kay.
    • 1.

  • Olivia Rodrigo

    stupid song

    • you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.
    • Geffen Records.
    • 2.

  • Djo

    End of Beginning

    • DECIDE.
    • Djo.
    • 6.

  • HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté

    Movin' To The Sun

    • MAKE THE GIRLS DANCE.

  • Chase & Status & Bou

    Baddadan (feat. IRah, Trigga, Flowdan & Takura)

    • EMI.

  • Holly Humberstone

    White Noise

    • Cruel World.
    • Polydor Records.
    • 6.

  • RAYE

    WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

    • Human Re Sources.

  • Harry Styles

    Dance No More

    • Columbia.

  • Blossoms

    Meet Me In Love

    • Meet Me In Love.
    • Distiller Records.
    • 1.

  • MK

    Zone (feat. Poppy Baskcomb)

  • Beyoncé

    MORNING DEW (DONK)

    • Columbia/Legacy.

  • Charli xcx

    Wink Wink

    • Atlantic.

  • KETTAMA

    Comes and Goes

    • Steel City Dance Discs.

  • Ella Langley

    Be Her

    • Be Her.
    • SAWGOD/Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Khalid

    Talk (feat. Disclosure)

    • Columbia.

  • Milky & Mall Grab

    Just The Way You Are

    • MINISTRY OF SOUND.

  • Wolf Alice

    Just Two Girls

    • The Clearing.
    • Columbia.

  • Jorja Smith

    Alive (feat. Wizkid)

    • FAMM.

  • Sabrina Carpenter

    Please Please Please

    • Island.

  • Jazzy & Chris Lorenzo

    Invisible

    • CHAOS.

  • Anne‐Marie

    PSYCHO (feat. Aitch)

    • Atlantic.

  • SIENNA SPIRO

    Great Expectation

    • Capitol.

  • Noah Kahan & Post Malone

    Dial Drunk

    • Island.

  • Gracie Abrams

    Look at My Life

    • Interscope.

Broadcast

  • Sunday 16:00
    BBC Radio 1