They’ve Made Us

On the final episode of season one we welcome chemist Professor Saiful Islam and Public Service Broadcasting's J. Wilgoose, Esq to the stage. For their inspirations we look to the past of the very building we filmed the series in and travel with PSB to Berlin... Hosted by Dr Helen Czerski and Robin Ince and presented in association with the Royal Institution. This show is only possible due to the...

On the penultimate episode of the season our special guests are the earth scientist and broadcaster Dr Anjana Khatwa and the material scientist and author Professor Mark Miodownik. In search of inspirations this week we head to the coast and Rickmansworth...   Hosted by Dr Helen Czerski and Robin Ince and presented in association with the Royal Institution.   This show is only possible due to the...

This week we look for inspiration in Ancient Greece and on the way to the Moon with special guests classicist and best selling author Natalie Haynes and doctor and host of 13 Minutes to the Moon, Prof Kevin Fong. Hosted by Dr Helen Czerski and Robin Ince and presented in association with the Royal Institution. Watch the video version at YouTube.com/cosmicshambles   This show is only possible due t...

Astronomer and host of The Sky at Night, Chris Lintott, and engineer and author Roma Agrawal are the guests on this week's show and we head back over a thousand years for one of our inspiring figures while one of the others, well, Chris walks past their house every day... Hosted by Dr Helen Czerski and Robin Ince and presented in association with the Royal Institution.   This show is only possible...

This week's show's guests are the planetary scientist and the 2003 RI Christmas lecturer Monica Grady and the presenter of our documentary, Rapid Motion Through Space, motorsport journalist Amy Reynolds. We head from outer space to the archives of the BBC for our inspirations in this episode. Hosted by Dr Helen Czerski and Robin Ince and presented in association with the Royal Institution. Watch t...

This week's show includes a 2020 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture reunion as the geologist Professor Chris Jackson is one of our special guests. Chris of course gave the 2020 lectures alongside our They've Made Us co-host Dr Helen Czerski. Our second guest is the stand up comedian, and NHS A&E doctor, Dr Kwame Asante and they, along with co-host Robin Ince, reveal their inspirations, the va...

Robin and Helen's special guests this week are the 2022 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer, best selling author and forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black and the sociologist, bioethicist and leading disability campaigner Professor Sir Tom Shakespeare. In this episode we travel from the Glasgow shipyards to Florence, Italy in search of inspiration... We want to know who inspired the pe...

The first episode of a brand new panel series hosted by Dr Helen Czerski and Robin Ince and presented in association with the Royal Institution. Our very special guests in this first episode are the multi award winning naturalist, wildlife presenter and author Steve Backshall and the two time Olympic champion rower Helen Glover. We want to know who inspired the people that inspire us. Each guest w...

Hosts Dr Helen Czerski and Robin Ince introduce a brand new podcast and web series from The Cosmic Shambles Network in association with The Royal Institution. Each week Helen, Robin and two guests introduce us to the people that shaped them. We want to know who inspired the people that inspire us. Each guest will invite the people who formed the ideas that have shaped their work, inspiration, crea...