UK child sexual abuse survivors take standup comedy courses

Ryan Moore says of learning standup: ‘No pill that doctors have given me makes me feel as good as when I get on stage.’ Photograph: Ryan Moore

Survivors of child sexual abuse are taking courses in standup comedy to help process their trauma, in the first such scheme in the UK.

The comedian Angie Belcher, the first person to get standup comedy prescribed on the NHS through her project Comedy on Referral, ran the two-day programme in Bristol last week.