Set sail on an ocean of science, music, comedy and the wonder with an all-star cast without leaving your home on Sunday the 17th of May with Robin Ince, Dr Helen Czerski and Steve Backshall at 7pm.
Today, the Cosmic Shambles Network and the Royal Albert Hall will take you on a celebratory online voyage of discovery of our own blue planet and how we are best placed to protect it.
The show will be anchored by co-host of the Rose D’Or winning The Infinite Monkey Cage (R4),Robin Ince, physicist and oceanographer Dr Helen Czerski and naturalist and wildlife presenter Steve Backshall and will include everything you’ve come to expect from one of the Cosmic Shambles Network’s signature variety shows.
With the live version of Sea Shambles sadly unable to go ahead, it’s time to bring a rejigged version of the show direct to you on the same date and time. The Cosmic Shambles Network have enlisted an incredible list of guests.
Lists of guests include Professor Brian Cox, actor and ocean advocate Cobie Smulders, rock band British Sea Power, science broadcaster Liz Bonnin, poet Lemn Sissay, comedian Josie Long, marine biologist Helen Scales, singer-songwriter Jim Moray, performer and rapper Ben Baily Smith, climate scientist Dr Tamsin Edwards, comedian Katy Brand, writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, actor Rufus Hound, violinist Dunja Lavrova, laserist Seb Lee-Delisle, performer David McAlmont, singer/songwriter Grace Petrie, actor Reece Shearsmith and musician Steve Pretty.
Lucy Noble, Artistic Director of the Royal Albert Hall, said:
“We’re so excited to present this special version of Sea Shambles as part of the Royal Albert Home series. We would have loved to welcome audiences to the building to experience this spectacular show, but at the moment of course that’s not possible.
This ‘at home’ version is the next best thing, with a truly staggering line-up of guests from the worlds of science, comedy and music.”
Multi-award winning comedian Robin Ince told us;
“Richard Feynman said that the imagination of nature is far greater than the imagination of humans, and what we see living in the ocean is a wonderful example of the possibilities of evolution in extreme conditions.
The delight in a child’s eye when it first sees that blobfish really exist is something to behold, in adults’ eyes too.
I am sure I am not the only parent who watched Octonauts with their child and thought, “hang on a minute, that creature can’t be real” and went straight to the internet to check up on the cookie cutter shark or snot sea cucumber.“
The show will be free to watch but as with all the shows during the Stay at Home Festival there will be a tip jar where people can leave a tip to help artists and venues hit hard by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis as well the Royal Albert Hall charity itself.
The show will also be raising money for and highlighting the work of some incredible marine conservation charities.
