Episode 8 - The one with Dark Energy and the big rip, we repeatedly use a rude Norwegian word to describe the hat of the week and Tony Soprano's friend, Paul McCartney blames the black notes when the problem was the whites and we delve into the corporate

Frenzied and Sustained

Our Brainy Lecture finally looks at dark energy, the mysterious force that suddenly started accelerating the expansion of the universe and unless it stops we are heading for the Big Split. Our hat of the week is the Ushanka. This may be my favourite sauce to date, Sauce Albert with fresh horseradish root to enliven your beef. This week’s songs under microscope uses music theory to show that Paul McCartney was ill advised in his use of metaphors in Ebony and Ivory. In literally the last section we investigate the dystopian totalitarian nightmare that is Thomas the Tank Engine and demonstrate why Tony Soprano was a much better boss than the Fat Controller.