Episodes
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Small Screen Science: Series Four Coming Soon!
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Hello! This year we're delighted to have been part of some of the UK's best science festivals, taking our podcast show on the road to live audiences. For Series Four of Small Screen Science, we've turned our live shows into podcast episodes for you to enjoy, even if you couldn't see us in person. Make sure you subscribe so that you don't miss upcoming episodes on the science behind shows like Derry Girls, The Office, and Friends.
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Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
4.1: Derry Girls (Throw-back Science)
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Season 4 is all about our LIVE shows. We've recorded our 2022 live podcasts as episodes, and we're starting this series with the incredible show Derry Girls. We were lucky enough to be invited by the Northern Ireland Science Festival to do this show none other than in Derry itself in February (and we loved it)!
In this episode we join the girls from Our Lady Immaculate as they turn their eyes on Father Peter to find out why we fancy hot priests. Plus, we use science to find out why we find Orla’s oddball character so funny, how hash scones would affect our bodies, and what happens when we watch high-octane thrillers in the cinema.
Oh and this funny noise we’re making? We’re English, it’s just the way we talk…
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
4.2: Friends: (Central Perk Science)
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
This episode is 'The one where...' we did a live show on the science behind Friends at science festivals in Wrexham and Swansea.
We ask the kind of questions about the 00's favourite sitcom that you never knew you needed answers to. What would happen to your body if you actually spent all your money on coffee in Central Perk? How do they put the smell in gas? Can you whiten your teeth so much that they glow in the dark? Were Ross and Rachel on a break? Lets find out…
Join us for 18 pages (FRONT AND BACK!) as we explore the science behind one of the world's most popular sitcoms, Friends.
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
4.3: The Office, An American Workplace (Scranton Science)
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica… We’re heading (virtually) to a mid-sized regional paper company named Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania to ask, can science tell us what the deal is with office romances? How do we make jelly hard enough to hide a stapler in? How would your body react if Dwight pepper sprayed you? Why do Kevin’s feet smell so bad? Can Angela really talk to her cats? And, what really happens to our bodies when we eat beetroot?
Join us to explore the surprising science behind the hugely popular American TV sitcom, ‘The Office’ and, maybe, you too will feel God in this Chillies tonight.
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
4.4: Line of Duty (Bullets and Burner Phone Science)
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Mother of God! We take another look at the science behind Line of Duty. This time for the Northern Ireland Science Festival in Belfast.
We’re going undercover and turning on our burner phones and investigating both AC-12 and the OCG as we ask, how do the police actually process a crime scene in real life? If they find a bullet, how can forensic ballistics investigators track it to one exact firearm? What’s the deal with examining a body? Are DNA and fingerprint samples always reliable? And why does DI Steve Arnott just LOVE meeting up for clandestine chats in grimy underpasses?