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Sea Shambles tickets on sale NOW!
Tickets are on sale now for our spectacular new show at the Royal Albert Hall in 2020.
Wendell Pierce and Reginald D Hunter join Book Shambles Live
We are excited to announce our two special guests for Book Shambles Live in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall on July 7th, Reginald D Hunter and Wendell Pierce.
New Guests for Nine Lessons Announced
As always, the Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People will feature a jam packed bill every night. Here’s some new guest announcements.
Features
What Went on at the 2018 Compendium of Reason
The 2018 version of Brian Cox and Robin Ince’s Compendium of Reason is in the books. Here’s what went down at the Apollo.
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Jim and Monica – Space Shambles Guest Profiles
Two of our esteemed scientific guests at the Albert Hall on June 15.
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Rusty Schweickart Profile – Space Shambles Guest
Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart is one of our very special guests on June 15, for Space Shambles at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Blogs
Neutrino Endpoint – Jon Butterworth
Prof Jon Butterworth looks at the elegance of the KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment in Germany.
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I am Inconvenienced, but I am ALIVE… – Robin Ince
This was originally written back in 2013, in the doorway of a delayed train at Platform 4 of Northampton Station. As today is World Suicide Prevention Day, it seemed a bundle of thoughts worth re-posting here at Shambles.
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The Real Results: GCSEs and Teen Mental Health – Dean Burnett
Today is GCSE results day in the UK. Fifteen- and sixteen-year olds all across the country will be finding out how well they’ve done in the exams they recently sat, the ones they spent two years studying for. Dean Burnett investigates.
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Neutrino Endpoint – Jon Butterworth
Prof Jon Butterworth looks at the elegance of the KATRIN (Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino) experiment in Germany.
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I am Inconvenienced, but I am ALIVE… – Robin Ince
This was originally written back in 2013, in the doorway of a delayed train at Platform 4 of Northampton Station. As today is World Suicide Prevention Day, it seemed a bundle of thoughts worth re-posting here at Shambles.
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The Real Results: GCSEs and Teen Mental Health – Dean Burnett
Today is GCSE results day in the UK. Fifteen- and sixteen-year olds all across the country will be finding out how well they’ve done in the exams they recently sat, the ones they spent two years studying for. Dean Burnett investigates.
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Beautiful Days at Beautiful Days – Robin Ince
Robin had himself a jolly fine time at The Beautiful Days Festival full of mac and cheese, music and inflatable hammers.
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Hide and Seek – Ginny Smith
A tweet from Hannah Fry got Ginny Smith thinking, why are kids so shit at hide and seek?
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Why Hasn’t the Debate Around Violent Video Games Matured? – Pete Etchells
After yet another mass shooting in America, yet again a certain group of people are keen to blame this horrific violence on video games. Why hasn’t the debate around this matured?
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