Your Brain on Slapstick

Pratfalls, chaos, custard pies and other mishaps - why is slapstick comedy funny and what is happening in our brains when we laugh?

Professor Sophie Scott, world-acknowledged expert in the neuroscience of comedy, joins composer and broadcaster Neil Brand to explore what is going on in our heads when we laugh at silent film comedy.

Part of Silents by the Sea 2024. Great value festival passes can be booked here.