Ep 209: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

All the important scientific questions get asked this week, as space scientist and ‘The Sky at Night’ presenter Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock joins us in the Dream Restaurant. Does she think that Dark Matter’s evil?

Dr Maggie’s new book “The Art of Stargazing’ is published on November 2 by Ebury Publishing. Buy it here.

Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the spoon of the internet, scooping out the inside
0:18.4	of the passion fruit of humour and adding it to the fruit salad.
0:22.0	Oh, that's a lovely looking fruit salad now.
0:24.4	Getting a bit tropical.
0:25.4	30 tasty.
0:26.4	That's a gamble.
0:27.4	My name is James A. Castor.
0:28.4	We own a dream restaurant.
0:29.4	In every week, we invite a guest in and ask them a favour ever to start a main cause dessert
0:32.7	side dish and drink.
0:33.7	Not in that order.
0:34.7	And this week, I guest is Dr Maggie Adrien Polcock.
0:38.5	Dr Maggie Adrien Polcock.
0:40.3	One of the foremost leading space scientists in the UK, James.
0:45.0	Nay the world.
0:46.0	Nay the universe.
0:47.0	Yes.
0:48.0	Very exciting to finally have a legitimate scientist on the podcast.
0:52.4	We've had Brian Cox before, of course, have a fake one.
0:54.8	Yeah.
0:56.4	He gave a very short shrift on our idiotic musings.
0:59.4	Well, no, we're not idiotic.
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