Professor Brian Cox

Out To Lunch

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On being starstruck by Neil Armstrong, his relationship with Tony Blair, and why we might all be holograms, physicist and academic Professor Brian Cox joins Jay for this week's episode of Out To Lunch. Brian and Jay enjoy tapas from Boqueria in Brixton (http://www.boqueriatapas.com/), paired with spectacular wine courtesy of Liberty Wines: https://www.libertywines.co.uk/ A Somethin’ Else and Jay Rayner production For the exciting new range of OTL merch, head to: https://kontraband.shop/collections/out-to-lunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Something else.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to our lunch, the podcast where I chat to magnificent people over equally magnificent food.
0:13.3	My guest today has always been close to the stars.
0:15.7	He started in a rock band called Dare and decided to jack it all in for a life in
0:19.6	academia teaching particle physics and studying astronomy as you do but he couldn't stay out of the
0:24.8	spotlight and came to prominence once more as presenter of hit BBC science shows like the
0:29.3	wonders of the solar system and stargazing live his name and voice have become so well known in the
0:34.9	UK that University Challenge poses questions on him and he's voiced a character in
0:39.0	Postman Pat. Oh and he works at Cern, lectures at Manchester University and is fellow of the Royal Society.
0:44.8	It is of course Professor Brian Cox.
0:48.0	Yeah, I think I was basically saying which I wouldn't consider moving to the moon until the remin yards.
0:53.3	I think he's what I'm going to find.
0:58.7	Brian.
0:59.2	Hello Jay, how are you?
1:00.6	You can hear me.
1:01.4	How marvelous. Now listen, normally on out to lunch we ask people for their
1:06.5	dietary requirements and they come back and say I don't eat dairy or I'm a fruit
1:11.0	area or whatever. It's fine you you know, we cater for all sorts. You were very specific.
1:16.3	You said, I am led by my wine choices. I like white burgundies.
1:21.5	Well, we better deal with that. Now you should have got a delivery. I think it came yesterday.
1:25.9	I have had a delivery, yeah. Do you want to read the label or shall I?
1:29.7	Yeah, can you see it? So it's a Santa Ban, Premier Crew, 2018 from Jean-Claude Boase.
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