Happy friendships, happy life revealed in new Nature of Things’ The Secrets of Friendship

Where: CBC, CBC Gem

If there’s one thing that can be said about living through a nearly two-year lockdown, it’s that you find out who your friends are — and what they mean to you.

“Friends have always been important in my life, and when we were in lockdown during COVID, I started missing them a lot,” filmmaker Judith Pyke says.

“I also started noticing a lot of different conversations that people were having about aspects of their friendships that were being challenged by COVID. It got me really interested in why this is so important to us and what the science says about friendship. And when I started looking into the science of friendship, I was so fascinated and blown away by it, but I thought it was perfect for a documentary.”