With Wendy Cope, Luke Wright, Zoe Wanamaker, Tiffany Watt Smith, Rachel

Cooke and Will May.

Episode 5 celebrates the sidesplitting, surreal and downright silly side of poetry.

Insights and anecdotes come from poets Wendy Cope and Luke Wright, Zoe Wanamaker channels the spirit of Stevie Smith with some fantastic live readings, and Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, of the Queen Mary University of London Centre for the History of the Emotions, helps to keep order with an academic view on laughter.

This podcast was produced by Alia Cassam.