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Mixing stand-up and sketches, comedian Rob Newman tackles a series of weighty topics.

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Rob Newman: Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution: Episode 1

Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Rob Newman, Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution, Episode 1

Rob Newman presents a witty, fact-packed A-Z of evolution, mixing stand-up and sketches.

A witty, fact-packed A-Z of evolution, via stand-up and sketches. With Claire Price and Jenni Murray. From October 2015.

One of Britain's finest comedians, Rob Newman, with a witty, fact-packed series mixing stand-up and sketches, challenging notions of Survival of the Fittest and The Selfish Gene with a new theory that's equal parts enlightening and hilarious. 

Rob is our guide on a journey through a unique audio A-Z of nature that takes in everything from altruistic amoebae and dancing squid to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with a postal worker. 

Piecing these fragments together allows Rob to correct some major distortions of Darwinism, as well as rejig the theory of natural selection in the light of what we now know about epigenetics, mirror neurons and the Flintstones.

Written by Rob Newman
Starring Claire Price, with Jenni Murray as the voice of the Encyclopaedia.

Producer: Jon Harvey
Executive Producer: Richard Wilson
A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4.

Rob Newman: Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Comedian Rob Newman tackles the mysteries of nature with a unique audio A-Z

Mixing stand-up and sketches, comedian Rob Newman tackles the mysteries of nature with a unique audio A-Z

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