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CERN - Large Hadron Collider Podcast

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Particle Physicist Dr Brian Cox invites a series of unlikely guests around the biggest experiment in the history of the universe (well this one) ever. Is it a chat show? Is it an introduction to particle physics? Is it just a jolly day out in Gevena? Maybe all three.

  • 12 episodes
  • Updated Sep 23, 2008

Episodes12

  • Sep 23, 2008 · 20 min

    Ed Vaizey

    Ed Vaizey is a UK Conservative member of Parliament and a keen supporter of funding in science. Brian invited him to CERN to look at the LHC from a politcal standpoint.

  • May 6, 2008 · 27 min

    Chris Morris

    It's Chris Morris, British satirist, comedy writer, actor and director and all. Here he is at CERN visiting ATLAS and CMS with Brian and chums.

  • Apr 28, 2008 · 26 min

    The Bad Astronomer - Phil Plait

    The Bad Astronomer AKA Phil Plait came to visit the LHC and with Brian Cox discusses life as a skeptic.

  • Feb 22, 2008 · 12 min

    CMS - Jim Virdee

    Dr Brian Cox talks to Jim Virdee the spokesperson of CMS - the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, which together with its 'sister' detector, Atlas, will be looking for signs of the Higgs Boson.

  • Dec 1, 2007 · 26 min

    The Dean Of Guildford Cathedral

    The Very Revd Victor Stock visited CERN and in a fascinating conversation with Dr Brian Cox centring the Religion v Science debate, both found there was more common ground than is generally accepted.

  • Nov 24, 2007 · 21 min

    Quentin Willson

    Quentin Willson of Top Gear and Fifth Gear fame is a fan of engineering on a massive scale, so where better to go than to the LHC.

  • Oct 12, 2007 · 31 min

    John Ellis

    Dr Brian Cox talks to CERN's head of Theoretical Physics Professor John Ellis about Super Symmetry, Super Strings, and a Super picture of Higgs in a bathing suit.

  • Jul 6, 2007 · 3 min

    CERN in 3 minutes

    Everything (well lots anyway) you wanted to know about CERN in the time it takes to boil an egg.

  • Jun 27, 2007 · 31 min

    The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

    Charles Jencks, landscape designer extraordinaire, talks to Dr Brian Cox about how he presents and represents the Universe in his work as one of the world's leading architects and is inspired by the ATLAS detector in the LHC.

  • Apr 6, 2007 · 27 min

    Captain Jack Goes to CERN

    John Barrowman AKA Captain Jack from Torchwood and Dr Who talks to Particle Physicist Dr Brian Cox at CERN. They visit the Large Hadron Collider - the biggest experiment in science ever ever in the Universe. But first they have lunch.