University of Cambridge Professor Ron Laskey will be singing more of his "Songs for Cynical Scientists" at an evening of science comedy and cabaret tonight, August 2 at 8pm.
University of Cambridge Professor Ron Laskey will be singing more of his "Songs for Cynical Scientists" at an evening of science comedy and cabaret tonight, August 2 at 8pm.
University of Cambridge Professor Ron Laskey will be singing more of his ‘Songs for Cynical Scientists' at an evening of science comedy and cabaret tonight, August 2 at 8pm.
His songs take as their themes subjects all scientists recognise - being scooped, the morning after the conference banquet and seminar fatigue - as well as songs for everyone on life's high and low moments.
Professor Laskey is Director of the MRC Cancer Cell Unit in the Hutchison / MRC Research Centre. "Having performed as an undergraduate alongside a then unknown musician from the USA called Paul Simon, I decided that if this was the standard of singer-songwriters, I had better become a scientist," he said.
He will be joined for this show by Dr Harry Witchel, by day a research physiologist at the University of Bristol and by night a reality show pundit, who among many other TV appearances has analysed the housemates' body language on Big Brother. The compere will be Mark Stevenson, stand-up comedian and sitcom writer.
Tickets for tonight's show, entitled 'Subversive Thinking' are £5, available on the door of the venue, the Footlights Bar, Fitzroy Street, Cambridge.
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