Season Four

 

Welcome to the fourth series of Small Screen Science Podcast. This year (2021-22) we were invited to do live shows at a number of different science festivals from Northern Ireland to Cheltenham. Not all of you could come and see us so we thought we would record them as podcasts!

Ep 1. The Derry Girls

We join the girls from Our Lady Immaculate as they turn their eyes on Father Peter to find out why we fancy hot priests! Why do we find Orla’s oddball character so funny? How would hash scones affect our bodies? What happens when we watch high octane thrillers? All this an more in our first episode of the new series.

Ep 2. Friends

What would happen to your body if you lived in Central Perk? How do they put the smell in gas? Can you whiten your teeth so much they glow in the dark? Join us as we explore the science behind one of the world's most popular sitcoms, Friends.

Ep 3. The Office

Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica… We’re heading to a mid-sized regional paper company named Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania to ask, can science tell us what the deal is with office romances? How would your body react if Dwight pepper sprayed you? And, what really happens to our bodies when we eat beetroot?

Ep 4. Line of Duty

Mother of God! We take another look at the science behind Line of Duty. This time for the Northern Ireland Science Festival in Belfast.

We’re going undercover and turning on our burner phones and investigating both AC-12 and the OCG as we ask, how do the police actually process a crime scene in real life? If they find a bullet, how can forensic ballistics investigators track it to one exact firearm? What’s the deal with examining a body? Are DNA and fingerprint samples always reliable? And why does DI Steve Arnott just LOVE meeting up for clandestine chats in grimy underpasses?

Ep 5. Superheroes

Join us as we explore the science of superheroes. Originally performed as part of the Cheltenham Science Festival.

How does spiderman’s webbing work? Can we use the weather like Thor does? Why is Hawkeye’s vision so good? How does Groot re-grow into a big tree from a twig? Why do superheroes wear capes? From Hulk and Black Widow, to Aquaman and Batman, learn all about the super science behind everyone’s favourite superheroes.