Robin Ince, Josie Long, Mark Gatiss and Alan Moore nosh on some mince pies, flick though the festive Radio Times and talk about what’s on the telly this Christmas.
Naturally, that doesn’t last for long and we end up finding out their favourite Christmas horror movies and why the Frozen Planet polar bear furore makes Mark ‘incandescent with rage’.
We also hear a very good reason why Alan won’t join the digital age and discover the strange effect his local zebra crossings have on him.
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Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Will Self about cuts to UK libraries. He explains why he’s lending his voice to a campaign to preserve funding for local libraries, but he also examines how a crisis can be turned into an opportunity.
Novelists Joseph O’Connor and Maggie O’Farrell discuss why dead lovers haunt the pages of their books, as well as the back catalogue of English literature.
Plus, have young novelists forgotten how to be funny? Open Book responds to a reader’s query for new comic fiction from writers under the age of thirty-five - comedian Robin Ince is on hand to offer guidance.
The indisputable king of anecdotes, Barry Cryer, joins Robin and Danielle for a chat about their favourite jokes and the art of stand-up, plus lurid men’s magazines from the fifties.
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Robin Ince, Brian Cox, Helen Keen, PZ Myers and Jon Ronson record an episode of Robin’s ‘Utter Shambles’ at Cheltenham Science Festival. Recorded about a month ago.
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Science chat with physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. This week they are joined by author and documentary maker Jon Ronson and Seth Shostak from the SETI Institute in California, to discuss science conspiracy theories, UFOs and the search for ET.
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Former cosmologist Dara O’Briain and Dr Alice Roberts join physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince for a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science. They’ll be asking why so many comedians seem to start life as scientists, and begin their quest to put science at the heart of popular culture.
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