Sunday Times Science Book of the Year!
December 20, 2017
I was sitting on a London-bound train at Manchester Piccadilly, sipping a coffee and idly flicking through the “Culture section of The Sunday Times, relieved that the recording of Christmas University Challenge in Salford was over – and it wasn’t as te …
Christmas University Challenge 2017
December 16, 2017
My first reaction, when the BBC contacted me to do Christmas University Challenge was: “No. Never. I’m no good at quizzes. It’ll be terrifying.” But my wife persuaded me it was an opportunity too good to miss, so I accepted. And I am so glad I did. Uni …
Sunday Papers Live, 10 September
September 17, 2017
Sunday Papers Live is a fab thing. Cecil Sharp House, close to London’t Regent’s Park, is taken over and kitted out like a giant living room, with comfortable sofas and rugs. People are encouraged to come with their babies and dogs, wear slippers, and …
Blue Dot Festival, 7 July, 3pm
May 30, 2017
On 14 September 2015, gravitational waves were first detected on Earth. The source – two merging black holes – briefly pumped out 50 times more power than all the stars in the Universe together. To mark the publication of my book, The Ascent of Gravity …
York Festival of Ideas, 16 June, 7.40pm
May 1, 2017
On 14 September 2015, gravitational waves were first detected on Earth. The source – two merging black holes – briefly pumped out 50 times more power than all the stars in the Universe together. To mark the publication of my book, The Ascent of Gravity …