— A cracker of a show…

We wish you all a happy holiday and will see you in the new year, but if you find yourself missing out on your daily dose of chemistry we recommend you tune into BBC Radio 5 live on Thursday the 29th between 7 and 10 pm (UK time).

The Naked Scientists‘ Chris Smith, who you’ll know from our podcasts, will be hosting a Cocktail Party from his house (yes, really – we’ve seen the cables currently stored in his spare room) including Darcy O’Neil, a cocktail chemist who spoke to Hayley Birch last year for her feature on cocktails. They’ll also be discussing the chemistry of cooking, as well as finding out live on air if a chocolate teapot really is useless and whether bread does always land butter side down, along with  answering 5 live listeners’ science questions. You can find out more here.

Following Chris will be Maggie Philbin with a show called The World Tomorrow, not that different from the name of the TV show Philbin used to present…

The press release for the whole night, with more details about the scientists taking part can be read at the BBC’s media centre site.

I’ll be adding this to my list of Christmas listening/viewing, along with the RI Christmas lectures, Dr Who and, ahem, Downton Abbey…

Laura Howes

                  

Source:
http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/?feed=rss2