Naked Scientists host inaugural Science Night on Radio 5 Live

Find out if a chocolate teapot really is useless and whether bread does always land butter-side down, when Chris Smith hosts the inaugural Science Night on Radio 5 Live.

Smith and the Naked Scientists from Cambridge University take listeners on an entertaining and informative journey covering botany to biotech, chemistry to chaos theory and physics to psychology to strip science down to the bare essentials.

The Naked Scientists along with examining the chemistry of cooking will answer listener’s science questions live on-air.

You can listen to Science Night on BBC Radio 5 Live from 7.00pm on Thursday 29th December.

Chris will welcome some of the biggest brains in the country to the Science Night Cocktail party, including Hugh Hunt from the Department of Engineering, Cambridge who was behind the Channel 4 programme, Dam Busters: Building the Bouncing Bomb.

The stellar line-up also includes John Zarnecki, a professor at the Open University and Principle Investigator on the Huygens mission to Titan and Darcy O’Neil, a cocktail chemist from the University of Western Ontario, will also join the party.

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