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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 4

Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution

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

Rob Newman tackles the mysteries of nature with this A-Z, taking in everything from amoebae to naked wrestling. From 2015.

One of Britain's finest comedians, Rob Newman returns 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 first broadcast in 2015.

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

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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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