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Nina Conti

Make Me Happy: A Monkey's Search for Happiness

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Factual: Health & Wellbeing

17/06/2012

BBC Four - Make Me Happy: A Monkey's Search for Happiness

Ventriloquist Nina Conti delves into the world of new age and alternative therapies.

Film in which comic and ventriloquist Nina Conti (and monkey) delve into the world of new age and alternative therapies in a quest for self-knowledge, enlightenment and happiness.

Comedian and ventriloquist Nina Conti (and monkey) delve into the world of new age and alternative therapies in the quest for self-knowledge, enlightenment and happiness.

Nina, mostly happy, gauche and open, is unravelling a little. Life is flying by and she is fearful of what she is becoming - a flakey, stressed-out mum. She wants to feel less angst, more grounded and happy. Monkey is sceptical and the voice of her self-doubt and to him it's all rubbish - the so-called therapists are nothing but charlatans trying to make money.

In a documentary both comical and bizarre, Nina is subjected to therapies ranging from naked yoga and laughter therapy to shamanic ritual, before heading off for an unsettling three-day retreat in the wilds of Scotland to undergo primal screaming and rebirth.

But will it make her happy?

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