Backstage at the Apollo - Part II
End of Year Specials Part III
Start the New year with the final of of our End of Year Specials. Recorded backstage at the Apollo we chat about best books of the year, science fiction, physics and go through Brian Cox’s Kindle. Guests include Jim Al-Khalili, Dr Karl, Jo Brand, Charlotte Church, Chris Hadfield, Terry Virts, Dara Ó Briain and Brian Cox.
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Reading List
Robin recommends:
Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed by Jim Al-Khalili
Evolution (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Steve Jones
Jim Al-Khalili recommends:
Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines by Jim Al-Khalili
Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Jim Al-Khalili
Climate Change (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Charles, Prince of Wales
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Reality is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli
What’s Next? by Jim Al-Khalili and Philip Ball
The work of Stanisław Lem
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Jo Brand recommends:
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
Dr Karl recommends:
Karl, The Universe and Everything by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker
The Great Leveller by Walter Scheidel
Charlotte Church recommends:
The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Brian Cox recommends:
The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, In the Corner And At Ringside edited by Carlo Rosella and Michael Ezra
Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics by Richard Feynman and Steven Weinberg
The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
A Fire on the Moon By Norman Mailer
The Quantum Universe by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Forces of Nature by Brian Cox
How To Build a Universe by Brian Cox and Robin Ince
Conservatism: Ideas in Profile by Roger Scruton
Science and the Common Understanding by Robert Oppenheimer
Chris Hadfield recommends:
The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford
Jonathon Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach
Terry Virts recommends:
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Views From Above by Terry Virts
Dara Ó’Briain recommends:
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carré
The Earthgazers by Christopher Potter
Beyond the Sky by Dara Ó’Briain
Trent recommends:
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
Black Hole Blues by Janna Levin
Plum by Hollie McNish
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