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Hello, on my left is Professor Brian Cox in his desire to discover why the world is as it is.

He has seen the Aurora Borealis in Northern Norway, a total solar eclipse in Varanasi,

a city described by Mark Twain as older than history, older than tradition,

older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together.

And undertaken a grand voyage two and a half kilometers below the sea of Cortes

to view hydrothermal vents, the very cradle of life on earth.

But as Brian said to me, only earlier today, in a sad and mournful voice,

oh Robin, I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me.

But he got weird. And on my right Robin in, so he hasn't really been anywhere.

But has recently finished writing a sequel to Flash Gordon from a quantum mechanical

perspective, but has struggled to find an actor with the gravitas and power to deliver the

complexities of the science. Gordon's alive!

And Gordon's dead, and he's alive, and he's dead, and Gordon's in superposition.

Never has superposition been told so sexily by physicists.

If he's looked into Schrodinger's cat and it was in a superposition.

So anyway, so he won't tell you who that guest is, you just stay at home and wonder,

was it Derek Jacobi? Maybe it was. We're going to look at space tourism.

Is it not enough that people can go to India to find themselves when they deal with one of

their pathetic anxieties about the pointlessness of existence? Do we need also to reject them into

space as well? Will the technologies being developed, democratised space travel, harnessing the

engineering excellence, creativity and capital available in the private sector to propel our

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