The big picture: Ruby Wax back on the road

Ruby Wax is back on the road – and her live show sees her share the stage with a monk and a neuroscientist. Intrigued? So was Pat Fitzpatrick...

Ruby Wax wants to help upgrade your brain. “We’ve evolved this far, but we don’t need more fingers and toes,” she tells me in the course of a conversation that mentions comedy, politics, neuroscience, God and a monk who hasn’t had sex in 25 years.

“But we’ve made this jungle and we need to learn how to live in it. That’s what I want to help you to do.”