Mission: Joy review — the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu on why we should never grow up

Mission: Joy — Finding Happiness in Troubled TimesBBC4★★★★☆

Frayed Sky Max/Now★★★☆☆

If you have one of those £7.99 books titled something like Seven Steps to Happiness: TODAY! then toss it aside. Chances are it will only be rehashing what old friends the Dalai Lama and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in a couple of simple, non-BS sentences in the unsnappily titled Mission: Joy — Finding Happiness in Troubled Times.

The documentary lasted 80 minutes but the message was beautifully succinct. The source of joy is within you, and no amount of external trinkets — big cars, jewellery, big houses — will summon it. The kinder and more compassionate you are, the happier you will be. The Dalai Lama, who constantly