Welcome to Under the Skin with me Russell Brand in which we ask what's beneath the surface of people weird my ideas that define our time of the history that we are told today is a very special episode we've got professor Brian Cox the astronomer the

Militialist voiced darling of the stars the constellation creator and man of wonder we talk about God the universe

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Our guest today is professor Brian Cox who is both a professor is his title indicates and popularizer of science as his fame and career demonstrate

Whose general way of presenting and simplifying the most complex ideas is seen in become the country's best loved physicist on his TV shows attract huge viewing figures these include wonders of the universe human

Universe and forces of nature

commonly referred to as the rock star physicist he has been described as the natural successor for BBC scientific programming by both David

Attenborough and Patrick Moore and by some as England's equivalent to Neil to grassy Tyson

That must feel good does it if you're a scientist to be described in that way or not by me by David Attenborough and you know it's I mean I was there when he when he said

It's actually I was presenting him within the ward it was a radio times awards

I think and so I presented him with the with the award and he stood up to the microphone and said

If I had a torch I'd pass it to you and then went and sat down again

And of course there's nothing you can say and I thought about it since and the the real answer is that

The can't be a successor in the way. They can't be a successor to Neil Armstrong

Because

David Attenborough was the evented the form really natural history documentary was pioneered by him

So he's the first and still the best you watch blue planet too

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