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Science and Politics
Ed Vaizey, MP for Wantage and Didcot, visited CERN last spring. He had a Q&A with John Ellis on the physics being done at CERN, was shown around ATLAS and had a chat with Brian Cox about science, politics and UK science funding. Listen: (direct link here)
Chris Morris
Chris Morris is considered to be one of the greatest satirists ever and has been responsible for some of the most controversial, and let’s face it funny, programmes on television. In the UK, comedy writers and performers ranked him number 11 out of the 50 greatest comedy acts ever, above people including Bill Hicks, Peter [...]
Bad Astronomy
Who better to invite to CERN, than the internet’s most popular astronomy blogger, Dr. Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer? Phil and Brian originally met in 2005 when Brian interviewed Phil for a BBC programme about the Deep Impact mission. Since then, they’ve stayed in touch regularly. Phil was even interviewed about science in science fiction [...]
Science and Religion
Recently, Dr. Brian Cox was invited to take part in a discussion entitled ‘Is Physics The New Religion?’ at Guildford Cathedral. During the discussion, he and the Dean of Guildford Cathedral, The Very Reverend Victor Stock, found they shared a lot of common ground. As Victor had invited Brian along to his place of work, [...]
Quentin Wilson
Quentin Wilson is one of Britain’s best-known motoring experts. He presented the BBC’s Top Gear for over a decade before leaving for Channel Five’s rival motoring programme, Fifth Gear. We invited Quentin to come to CERN because of his interest in engineering, he left with a deeper understanding of the Universe and humanity’s place in [...]
Newsround
“If you can’t explain what we’re doing to a 10 year old then you’ve got no chance of explaining it to an adult.” – Brian Cox BBC’s Newsround, the world’s first tv news programme specifically aimed at kids, has been running since 1972. Newsround’s presenter Lizo Mzimba came to CERN to do a news item [...]
Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery
PART ONE Listen to Part Two Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery are well-known to British comedy fans. Also known by his stagenames of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, Simon Munnery is a comedy writer and experimental standup comedian.The Observer newspaper called Simon, ‘One of the most original and talented comedians in [...]
Kevin Eldon and Simon Munnery
PART TWO Listen to Part One Kevin and Simon are taken on a tour of CERN’s computer centre – the Vatican of The World Wide Web- as well as the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider. Listen: (direct link here) At the ‘computer graveyard’. More images on Flickr.
John Ellis
Brian talks to CERN Theoretical Physicsist, Professor John Ellis, about Supersymmetry, Super Strings, Dark Matter and Dark Energy and a Super picture of Peter Higgs in a bathing suit. (direct link here) John Ellis in his office, as seen by the New York Times
Lyn Evans
Brian talks to Lyn Evans, the LHC Project Leader. (direct link here)
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