Some People With Jokes. Copyright: BBC
Some People With Jokes

Some People With Jokes

  • TV stand-up
  • BBC Four
  • 2013 - 2014
  • 10 episodes (2 series)

Series in which different sections of the public tell their favourite jokes to camera. The groups include Vicars, Scousers and Football Managers.

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Series 1, Episode 3 - Some Boffins With Jokes

Some of the nation's sharpest scientific minds and keenest brains tell their favourite jokes. Do boffins find the same things funny as us regular citizens? Let the nation decide.

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Prof. Paddy Regan. Copyright: BBC

The joke tellers in this episode were...

Dr Richard Heads. Cardiovascular Biologist

Prof Paddy Regan. Professor of Nuclear Physics

Dr Phillip Lewis. Chemist - Retired

David Pugh. Chemist

Dr Karli Montague. Neurobiologist

Dr Paul Stevenson. Senior Physics Lecturer

Dr Mark Lorch. Chemistry Lecturer

Dr Bal Sanghera. Medical Physicist

Dr Diana S Fleischman. Evolutionary Psychologist

Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick. Spatial Analysis & Visualisation Lecturer

Emma Stoye. Biologist

Dr Sub Reddy. Analytical Chemist

Samuel Gregson. Physicist

Dr Christina Fuentes. Neuroscientist

Terry Harvey-Chadwick. Science Viking

Prof Laurence H Pearl. Structural Biologist

Prof Clare Elwell. Professor of Medical Physics

Prof Sophie Scott. Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Dr Emma Harris. Radiation Physicist

Simon Singh. Science Writer / Ex Particle Physicist

Prof Simon Wessely. Vice Dean & Professor Psychological Medicine

Dr Crawford Kingsnorth. Biologist

Dr Tony Padilla. Cosmologist

Nicola Davis. Chemist

Dr Sujarta Kundu. Materials Nanochemist

Jamie Gallagher. Biologist

Dr Philip Robinson. Science Journalist

Dr Radu Sporea. Elecronics Engineer

Prof Feo Kusmartsev. Professor of Physics

Ben Garrod. Evolutionary Biologist

Westley Ingram. Medical Physicist

Dr Andrew N Holding. Chemical Biologist

Prof Shahn Majid. Director of Pure Mathematics

Broadcast details

Date
Wednesday 24th July 2013
Time
10pm
Channel
BBC Four
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Thursday 25th July 2013 1:00am BBC4
Tuesday 30th July 2013 12:00am BBC4
Wednesday 1st January 2014 12:15am BBC4
Thursday 8th May 2014 10:35pm BBC4
Wednesday 10th September 2014 10:00pm BBC2
Wednesday 10th September 2014 10:30pm BBC2 Scot
Monday 1st March 2021 10:30pm BBC2
Thursday 4th March 2021 10:30pm BBC2 Wales
Tuesday 16th November 2021 11:00pm BBC4
Sunday 11th December 2022 1:25am BBC4

Cast & crew

Production team
Mark Lucey Series Producer
Caroline Wright Executive Producer
Nick Searle Editor

Video

I'm Looking For My Wife

Three professors - Paddy Regan, Clare Elwell and Sophie Scott - share a couple of jokes.

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