This is a download from the BBC.

To find out more, visit bbc.co.uk slash radio4.

It's Professor Brian Cox, and on my right, a man who by night is a lefty touring stand-up comedian,

but under cover of day, he's special advisor to Jeremy Hunt.

Robby Nins.

Yeah, well, you've been reading my emails again. Everyone does. It's ridiculous.

Now, for the third year running, we're recording the show in front of a live audience

at the Chelton Science Festival, which means that as usual, Brian will,

I imagine, after this show, be approached by a member of the audience

who's only about 10 years old, and they'll say something like, you know...

Well, I think science has got some issues, and they'll talk for a while, and then eventually you'll say,

listen, Sonny, we might be having trouble realising quantum theory

with general relativity as a consistent theory.

But that, over there, is my helicopter.

Anyway, today, we're going to look at Mavericks in Science.

Where is the line between Mavericks Science and pseudoscience?

At the door of the physics department, I'd say, but anyway.

To push the frontiers of science, do you have to break any rules?

And should science have rules anyway?

What level of crazy can actually assist in science of advanced

and what level of crazy is just running naked through the street screaming,

I am the future robot that can eat the sky!

...