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Academic stand-up and cognitive development

Duration:
28 minutes
First broadcast:
Tuesday 10 April 2012

Chris Ledgard meets the academics doing stand-up comedy in a London pub; asks why foreign languages have to be so difficult, and discovers that jokes reach parts of the brain that other words cannot reach.

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    Word of Mouth

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