Ripping Yarns (PART ONE) - with Professor Sophie Scott CBE

Professor Sophie Scott (director of UCL's Dept of Cognitive Neuroscience) talks about the comforts of Ripping Yarns, Michael Palin & Terry Jones' hilarious and lavish post-Python anthology series of Edwardian adventure story spoofs, and how comedy always needs to be taken extremely seriously...PART ONE of a two-part episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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