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Sarah Woods - Watch Me

4 Extra Debut. When Anja meets Rhys she is reluctant to fall in love, but her brain has other ideas. A love story narrated by a neuroscientist. Stars Sarah Smart and Alun Raglan.

By Sarah Woods.

A love story about the power of mirror neurons.

Anja works in advertising, Rhys is a single dad. Their fates collide at a focus group, in which Rhys takes exception to Anja's baby food campaign. Both have their reasons to resist falling in love, but their brains have other ideas.

Anja and Rhys's love story is told from a neurological perspective, by neuroscientist Christian Keysers. It's the story of two individuals whose brains begin to 'mirror' each other as they gradually fall in love. As Christian says it's "...not so much an exchange of information as two brains becoming one."

Author of 'The Empathic Brain', Christian is Head of the Social Brain Lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences. He seeks to understand how, as social animals, our brains mirror those of other people, so that understanding others is not an effort of explicit thought but an intuitive sharing of emotions, sensations and actions.

Directed by James Robinson
A 大象传媒 Cymru Wales Production.

45 minutes

Last on

Thu 2 Aug 2018 21:15

Credits

Role Contributor
Anja Sarah Smart
Rhys Alun Raglan
Lucy Amaka Okafor
Rob Simon Ludders
Woman Claire Cage
Narrator Christian Keysers
Writer Sarah Woods
Director James Robinson

Broadcasts

  • Mon 12 Aug 2013 14:15
  • Mon 27 Jul 2015 14:15
  • Thu 2 Aug 2018 11:15
  • Thu 2 Aug 2018 21:15

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