Science Shambles
Blue Dot Festival Special Part 1Recorded at the Blue Dot Festival at Jodrell Bank, Robin chatted with various people about the great works of science and science fiction. And also some Mills & Boons. Robin and Josie kick things off and then our guests include physicist and professional pointer at wondrous things, Professor Brian Cox, Rosetta project scientist Dr Matt Taylor, space scientist Professor Monica Grady and actor, comedian and science writer Ben Miller. Because this episode was recorded in a large field where a music festival was also taking place, there is often a bit of background noise. Sorry about that.
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Reading List
Robin recommends:
The work of Charles Darwin
The work of Thomas Huxley
The Demon-haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Why Does E=mc² by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
The Challenge by Kerry Allyne
Rash Intruder by Angela Wells
Stormy Vigil by Elizabeth Graham
It’s Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller
William Blake: A Man Without A Mask by Jacob Bronowski
Josie recommends:
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Brian recommends:
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
Forces of Nature by Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen
Matt recommends:
The novelisations of Star Trek and Star Wars
Monica recommends:
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
Laudato Si by Pope Francis
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
The work of Iain M Banks
The work of Terry Pratchett
Ben recommends:
The Aliens are Coming! by Ben Miller
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein
I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
The work of Richard Feynman
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