The Bright Club Podcast

WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT. Not For kids. A new panel show format from Bright Club descends into intellectual infighting and NSFW naughtiness. Contains swearing. Best to delete this to be on the safe side. Not for under 18s. With comedian Rufus Hound, physicist Matty Hoban, biologist Tom Morgan and philosopher Tom Stern. All opinions expressed in this podcast aren't those of any of the podcast makers. They're probably not even the opinions of the people saying them - they're just trying to be funny.

Steve Cross bites his lip and tries not to giggle as archaeometallurgist Ruth Fillery-Travis and comedian Andrew O'Neill talk about Roman slags. This podcast is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

It would have been a crime to edit this meeting of metal minds down at all. So we haven't. Half an hour of the mythologies and mysteries of moshing, with barely time for a breath. This podcast is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Debi Linton, palaeontologist and metaller, meets Andrew O' Neill, comedian and metalhead. Steve Cross sounds confused and gets the wrong end of a succession of sticks. Dinosaurs abound. This podcast is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Two men with ringing in their ears (Neuroscientist David McAlpine and Comedian Andrew O'Neill) pick apart the details of the ear and music-induced hearing loss, while Steve Cross looks confused. This podcast is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Becky Lawson (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) is a neuroscientist, but she also knows how to explain things using cake and jam metaphors. Perfect to help Bec Hill and Steve Cross understand the brain. This podcast is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Matt Pope, archaeologist, gives Bec Hill, comedian, and Steve Cross, resident ignoramus, a lesson in stone age food. Are our bodies designed to live on something other than beer and chips? This podcast is sponsored by the Wellcome Trust.

Drink is a kind of food, isn't it? Booze culture expert James Kneale joins Bec Hill and Steve Cross for a meandering exploration of drinking across the world and through time. This podcast is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

The first of our 'Food' themed podcasts stars perky aussie comic Bec Hill and Laura Ishiguro, who studies the history of food eaten by colonial Brits. They join Steve Cross for a chat about nasty soups, awful pies, baked beans and curry. This podcast is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

This week Steves Hall and Cross meet Matt Piper, an expert on ageing in fruitflies. There's a lot of talk of food (as usual) and ways to encourage a lady fruitfly to get jiggy at a young age. This podcast is financially supported by the STFC.

This ever-so-slightly-delayed episode features Ian Hamilton, building design and energy use expert, and Steve Hall (We Are Klang). We're trying to make sense of the future, and what Britain might look like. Generously supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. As ever, the opinions expressed in this podcast are not those of anyone's employers. In fact, they're usually not even the speakers' opinions. We're just making it up as we go along...

This week Steve Hall (We Are Klang) and Bright Club's regular anchor and idiot Steve Cross try and understand museums, the cultural power of objects and spoliation with UCL's Cultural Property Advisor, Subhadra Das.

In the first of four 'Time' podcasts, Joe Flatman, archaeologist at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, tries to explain to Steve Hall (from We Are Klang) and Steve Cross how cakes explain why everything good on Time Team is buried.

Sheila Kanani studies Saturn's moons using the Cassini spacecraft. Here she tries to describe what she's found to Kent Valentine and Steve Cross, both of whom seem more interested in chasing penguins around the solar system.

Narciss Okhravi, consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, helps Kent Valentine to understand how vision works, and shares a few tales from the front-line of an Eye Hospital casualty department. She also reminds him that he needs an eye test!