Brian Cox & Alice Roberts on the Incredible Unlikeliness of Human Existence

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🗓️ 11 December 2014

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Who are we? Why are we here? Are we alone in the universe? How did we become the creatures that we are? How might we further evolve? These are some of the big questions that Brian Cox and Alice Roberts tackled when they came to the Intelligence Squared stage on 2nd December 2014. Brian Cox is the rockstar who became a scientist, and is now a rockstar scientist. He is known to millions as the presenter of the BBC Wonders series in which he unravels the complexities of the universe with calm clarity and an infectious sense of wonder. Alice Roberts is a no less talented science story-teller. A doctor, anatomist, osteoarchaeologist and writer, she has enthralled television audiences with BBC series such as The Incredible Human Journey. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
1:02.0	Thank you all very much for coming. Lovely to see such a big crowd here tonight.
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1:16.6	country's two most talented science communicators, Brian Cox and Alice Roberts.
1:23.0	Alice is an anatomist and anthropologist
1:26.0	and she's professor of engagement with science
1:30.0	at Birmingham University.
1:31.0	Her latest book is called The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, Evolution and
1:37.8	The Making of Us. Now I first came across Brian Cox way back in 2007 before he was famous.
1:47.0	Brian was already on his journey to media stardom through programs like the BBC II's Wonder Series. Of course, Brian also has a day job.
1:56.0	He's a professor at Manchester University and a researcher on the Large Hadron Collider Project at Cern in Switzerland.
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