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Episode Four: On Song

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Multi-award winning comedian Rob Newman explores the idea that speech evolved from song, and advances his exciting new theory that we may all be descended from cockney dancers.

Multi-award winning stand-up comedian Rob Newman explores Darwin’s 1872 hypothesis that speech evolved from song. Advancing theories of his own, Newman argues that we may all be descended from cockney dancers, and that prehistoric humans crossed the savannah disguised as giant pantomime mastodon.

You will never look at prehistory the same way again.

Written by and starring Rob Newman
With Claire Price
Original music by Boo Hewerdine and Chris Pepper
Recorded by David Thomas
Edited by Eloise Whitmore
Executive Producer: Polly Thomas
Produced by Jon Harvey and Eloise Whitmore

A Naked production for BBC Radio 4

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28 minutes

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Thu 24 Nov 202205:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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