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An A-Z of evolution, tackling the mysteries of nature via stand-up and sketches. With Claire Price and Jenni Murray. From 2015.

Rob Newman returns with a witty, fact-packed series mixing stand-up and sketches, challenging notions of Survival of the Fittest and The Selfish Gene with a new theory that's equal parts enlightening and hilarious.

Rob is our guide on a journey through a unique audio A-Z of nature that takes in everything from altruistic amoebae and dancing squid to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with a postal worker.

Piecing these fragments together allows Rob to correct some major distortions of Darwinism, as well as rejig the theory of natural selection in the light of what we now know about epigenetics, mirror neurons and the Flintstones.

Written by Rob Newman
Starring Claire Price, with Jenni Murray as the voice of the Encyclopaedia.

Producer: Jon Harvey
Executive Producer: Richard Wilson
A Hat Trick production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in 2015.

25 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Thu 22 Oct 2015 23:00
  • Sun 15 Jan 2017 19:15
  • Fri 20 Jan 2017 07:30
  • Fri 20 Jan 2017 17:30
  • Fri 20 Jan 2017 22:00
  • Sat 21 Jan 2017 05:30
  • Sun 21 Apr 2019 22:30