Robin Ince and the Cosmic Shambles organisation have lots of podcasts to stick between your ears, as follows:
TAKING THE UNIVERSE AROUND THE WORLD
www.cosmicshambles.com/horizonsdiary
Robin Ince’s Horizons Tour Diary
Available now
As Robin Ince embarks on the world tour of Horizons – A 21st Century Space Odyssey with Professor Brian Cox, he has decided to keep a diary of their adventures, second hand bookshop finds, local discoveries, artist manifestos, show reports and much more. The diaries are available in written form, with extra video content, on the Cosmic Shambles website but this podcast features extended versions of the entries, clips and extra chat. In the first collection of entries Robin tackles his anxiety about the tour (including how to pack an entire library into your suitcase for international travel), and heads off to New York before the first shows in Washington DC, Manhattan, Philadelphia and beyond.
MAKING TRACKS
A brand new Science Travel series with Simon Patterson
www.cosmicshambles.com/makingtracks
Throughout 2022
Each year highly respected motorsport journalist and writer Simon Patterson covers thousands of miles around the globe covering the MotoGP world championship. This year’s season features 21 Grand Prix and covers Europe, Asia, Australia and North & South America. Simon almost never even gets home, travelling in a kitted out motorhome van with a lot of down time between events.
Simon wasn’t always a motorsport journalist. His background is in forensic science and he’s also passionate about history. So, in 2022, he plans to take time out to visit and explore some exciting areas of scientific and historic interest on his travels, chat to a few people on the way and share that journey with us all!
From penguin parades in Australia, to fossil fields in Spain to rocket manufacturing sites in Finland and everything else in between. Teaming up with the Cosmic Shambles Network, Simon will be bringing us a unique video travelogue throughout 2022. We have no idea what he might discover. Neither does he. So we’ll also have various members of the Shambles family popping up to give some more scientific and cultural insight into those discoveries too.
The first episode will be released soon as Simon passes through Gibraltar, encountering the famous Barbary macaques. This episode will feature an interview with Dr Marine Joly, world leading expert in macaque and primate cognitive behaviour.
Whilst Robin and Simon head off around the world the Cosmic Shambles Network are continuing to produce the cutting-edge online and live science and arts coverage for which they are famous.
SCIENCE SHAMBLES
Hosted by Dr Helen Czerski
cosmicshambles.com/scienceshambles
Whilst Robin is away introducing the Universe to the rest of the world Helen will continue to introduce the rest of us to the people at the coal face of scientific innovation. The Science Shambles Sunday show is the podcast where the world’s leading scientists chat about their fields, fuelled by audience questions and interaction. There is something for everyone, whether you’ve got a PhD in astrophysics or you’re simply curious about how this Universe works.
Forthcoming guests include physicist Jim Al-Khalili, writer and investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, author and medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris, zoologist Jules Howard and founding director of the Science Media Centre Fiona Fox.
The Cosmic Shambles Network and Helen will also be returning to Latitude this year for a live recording of the Science Shambles show. For this special episode Helen will be joined by frontline emergency doctor, space medicine expert and host of 13 Minutes to the Moon, Dr Kevin Fong, to talk about the balance of exploring space and human spaceflight vs focusing on the problems on Earth like climate change and pandemics.
The ever popular Book Shambles continues to go from strength to strength with recent guests including Rachel Parris, Lauren John Joseph, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Campbell, Jules Howard, Kei Miller, Armando Iannucci and Richard Coles.
The Network also continue to present a plethora of fascinating and entertaining material from blogs (including a series of exclusive articles for Mental Health Awareness week by Dr Dean Burnett) to videos, from podcasts to comedy series.
