FOLLOWING sell-out performances at Edinburgh and last year's tour, comic Rob Newman is back on the road with his brand new show, The Brain Show, in which he takes a sceptical approach to some grand claims made by neuroscience.

After volunteering for a brain-imaging experiment meant to locate the part of the brain that lights up when you’re in love, Rob emerges with more questions than answers.

Can brain scans read our minds? Are we our brains? How can you map the mind? If each brain has more connections than there are atoms in the universe, then how big will a map of the brain have to be?

Seeking answers to these questions, The Brain Show explores everything from the thought-processes of stripy spiders to the neurobiology of romantic love, and from Alan Turing in a fortune-teller's tent to Isaac Newton having a meltdown at a County Fair.

The Brain Show features weird and wonderful electronic props such as a live brain-imaging electroencephalograph (EEG) hat, which gives the audience a read-out of Rob's fluctuating mental state during the show.

Following the release of Rob's new popular science book The Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution this week, he appears at The Berry Theatre in Hedge End on November 21 and Ashcroft Arts Centre in Fareham on February 25 2016.

Tickets: 023 8065 2333 or theberrytheatre.co.uk (Hedge End) or 01329 223 100 or hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk (Fareham)