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When You're Snarling

Rob Newman tackles mysteries of the brain in an odyssey taking in everything from love and guilt to robot friends. From 2017.

One of Britain's finest comedians, Rob Newman, is our guide on a unique audio odyssey of the brain, taking in everything from love and guilt to robot co-workers and the unlikely importance of prehistoric trousers.

It's a witty, fact-packed series mixing stand-up and sketches, challenging notions of neuroscience with a new theory that's equal parts enlightening and hilarious.

Rob offers an alternative to some of the more bizarre claims in modern popular science, as well as rejigging theories of our brains in light of what we know about nature, artificial intelligence and Belinda Carlisle.

Created by the award-winning team behind Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution.

Written by and starring Rob Newman.

Co-starring:

Claire Price
Richard McCabe

Producer: Jon Harvey

Executive Producer: Richard Wilson

A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017.

28 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Tue 25 Apr 201718:30
  • Tue 2 May 201707:30
  • Tue 2 May 201717:30
  • Tue 2 May 201722:00
  • Wed 3 May 201705:30
  • Wed 20 Jan 202111:30
  • Wed 29 Sep 202107:00
  • Wed 29 Sep 202117:00
  • Thu 30 Sep 202105:00
  • Wed 21 Feb 202422:30