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Our next guest is a superstar scientist

who once upon a time taught us that things can only get better

he's throwing particle parties across the globe

as he embarks on a brand new tour,

emergent.

So we've got stars in our eyes

as we chat to the charming chatterbox

that is Professor Brian Cole.

Yes.

I love it.

City now. I love that. That's the way to do it. That's the way we're wrong now. You don't get out on Radio 4. You don't? And hopefully they won't ever do that. Because it's our jam. Brian, nice to you again. It's been too long, man. Yeah, absolutely. Congratulations on your world record. What was the world record for?

It was a limited world record. It was the most tickets ever sold for a science tour.

Right. Which I think we kind of created for me because there's... Yeah, it's like the 500 metres hurdles.

It is, isn't it? Yeah. But it's still pretty impressive.

Yeah, I mean, it was the last tour and it seems like 400,

450,000 people or something like that came, which, you know, took me by surprise over the years that we ran it. I suppose so. I mean, it started off at a sprint, though. It was pretty big from the get-go. Yeah. I mean, the idea that we can do is essentially a physics lecture, but at the oh two for example yeah the O2 stadium stadium cosmology rock and roll you got there in the end didn't you Brian I always

you know because you know I was in bands for a long time since the 1980s I always had this

ambition to have my own trucks and a tour bus yeah with a crew on it yeah I never quite got

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