The Five Best Things In Science Ever
Dr Pilcher & Timandra Dr. Pilcher, assisted by Timandra, counts down her top five 'things in science ever'. What these are is open to change as we like to include topical science and can adjust to the requirements of different audiences. The Five Best Things have included Multiverse Theory; Percy Pilcher, pioneer of flight; the contra-ceptive pill; genetically modified animals; obscure entomological papers (all right - earwig knobs to you and me); nitric oxide; how to clone Elvis, and man landing on the moon.
This is more than just a comic lecture - wherever possible Dr. Pilcher and her assistant re-enact the remarkable events or principles under examination. Who would have thought that an adult audience would be joining in with the formula for nitrous oxide, volunteering to catch a scientist recreating early experiments in flight, or singing along with Elvis about black holes? The show runs for half an hour, though this can be flexible if necessary.
Let's Twist Again - Fifty Years of DNA
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Watson and Crick's remarkable discovery, the Comedy Research Project are offering a half hour show about some of the milestones of genetic science. Dolly the sheep and her media career on the covers of Nature, Hello magazine and Good Food Illustrated; How to clone Elvis in five easy steps; The uses of genetically modified animals, including spider-goats and glow-in-the-dark sausages, and many other topics get the CRP treatment, including the game show 'The Splice Is Right', and puns so bad that audience members offer to help Timandra climb out of the venue window.
Pick Your Brains
Dr. Helen Pilcher is a fully qualified neuroscientist, but you wouldn't think so from this show. The mysteries of the human brain are probed using audience participation and sophisticated brain scanning technology. Can brain chemistry explain the difference between nice, steady voles who take the rubbish out and feckless voles who shag around? What about male and female brains? Two lucky audience members get to don the CRP's patent Neurotransmod-ulator and find out.
Other shows
If you have a special event or a particular audience and would like a custom-made show, please call us. We have a lot of experience in devising shows to suit your needs, for example to fit into a conference programme or to develop particular themes.

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 We need a reasonable-sized stage area (minimum 4 metres wide, 2 metres deep, and minimum ceiling height 2.5 metres, but ideally bigger). We also need facilities to use a powerpoint presentation. We need to be able to play music and sound cues on CD, minidisc, and/or cassette, and if the room holds more than 30 people, we also need microphones. Stage lighting - so we are more brightly lit than the audience - is a big plus but not absolutely essential. The show is not suitable for walkabout or in a room where other activities are taking place at the same time.