Samira Ahmed – Book Shambles
The journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed joins Robin and Josie this week.
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I Helped! The Darker Side of Thoughts and Prayers – Dean Burnett
‘Thoughts and Prayers’ cover social media after almost any event these days. But iss it as innocent as it seems in most cases? the latest from Dr Dean Burnett.
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Cosmic Superheroes – Science Shambles
On International Women’s Day 2019 we did a live panel at the University of Manchester based around our Cosmic Superheroes exhibition with Helen Czerski, Sheena Cruickshank, Suzi Gage and Ginny Smith
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Jessie Nelson – Book Shambles Extra
US theatre and filmmaker Jessie Nelson sits down with Robin to talk books, screenwriting and her new musical adaption of Waitress.
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Catching Up – Jon Butterworth
Jon Butterworth has been too distracted to write much lately partly due to the demoralising backdrop of UK politics, and partly because he’s been too busy having fun with physics and related matters. So here’s a catch up from that side of things.
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Jim Bob – Book Shambles
Author JB Morrison, who you might know better as Jim Bob, frontman of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, joins Robin and Josie in the studio this week.
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Dear Netflix… – Ginny Smith
There is growing concern about some of the pseudoscientific programming that has made its way onto Netflix of late. So Ginny Smith presents an open letter to the streaming platform.
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Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People 2019
Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People has been an end of year tradition playing to sold out audiences in London for over a decade. Now, for the first time, this annual celebration of the curious and the creative, this variety night like no other, will be combining ideas, experiments, science, songs, comedy, poetry and more at The Lowry in Manchester as well returning to King’s Place in London.
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Forbidden Thoughts and Punting Children – Brain Yapping Podcast
In this week’s episode of Brain Yapping, Rachel and Dean stand on the precipice of compulsion as they discuss what happens in the brain when we have intrusive thoughts.
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The Trowelblazers – IWD 2019 – Rebecca Wragg Sykes
8th March is International Women’s Day. It’s become a familiar annual celebration centred on bigging up the women we know For Team TrowelBlazers, IWD is in many senses what we do EVERY day. Guest post by Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes.
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Brian and Robin’s Christmas Compendium of Reason 2019
It’s back. Of course it is. Phil McIntyre Entertainments in association with The Cosmic Shambles NetworkpresentsBrian and Robin’s Christmas Compendium of Reason 2019
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Gendered Brains and the Science of Evil – Science Shambles
Robin is joined in studio by Professor Gina Rippon and Dr Julia Shaw to talk about their new science books, The Gendered Brain and Making Evil.
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