Oxford Literary Festival
April 4, 2025
It was a lovely sunny Spring day in Oxford. I gave a talk at the Oxford Literary Festival about my black hole book, A CRACK IN EVERYTHING. Very engaged audience. Question I really liked: “But what does it MEAN for time to be warped?” (See below, where …
Science Museum Lates, London
March 7, 2025
London’s Science Museum: more fun than you might think. Everything from a Silent Disco to a talk about how black holes have came in from the cold (by me!). Thousands of people turned up for the March “Lates” and it was hopping. There was a real buzz in …
Fab New York Times book review!
January 22, 2025
Very happy to get this very nice book review in The New York Times two days before the US publication of A Crack in Everything!
Black holes at Brighthink, Brighton
October 23, 2024
Great to be in Brighton! Unfortunately, Chris Lintott from the BBC’s Sky At Night had to drop out of the “In Conversation” event at the last minute. I spent 30 minutes telling the audience hopefully interesting things about black holes and my book, A C …
Black holes at the Royal Institution
September 24, 2024
It’s always an incredible privilege to talk at London’s Royal Institution. I mean 10 chemical elements were discovered there, 14 Nobel prizes were earned and our electrical world was invented by Michael Faraday! It was fab to see so many people who had …




