9 March 2011 (2011-03-09) – 23 April 2014 (2014-04-23)
No. of series
3
No. of episodes
12
Website
BBC programme website
It Is Rocket Science is a BBC Radio 4 comedy about the history and development of human spaceflight, written and performed by Helen Keen. The series also stars Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane and is produced by Gareth Edwards. It was first broadcast in March 2011.[1]
The premise of the show is that, lacking a big budget, "award winning comedian and part time local authority temporary administrative assistant" [2] Keen has built a ‘super computer’ named The Voice of Space to narrate her peculiar but factually accurate history of space travel, and recreate the voices of various of historical and illustrative characters. Throughout the series The Voice of Space is referred to as possessing the attributes/spare parts of various types of vintage home computers (particularly ZX Spectrum, as heard in episode 1) and household kitchen equipment. Keen has said that The Voice of Space's unique pronunciation of words such as universe (‘oooniverse’) which has drawn comment [1] is intended as an affectionate tribute to the vocal styling of the presenters of her favourite space themed TV programmes, particularly e.g. Carl Sagan's pronunciation of Cosmos (which sounded unusual to her as an English person).[3]
The radio series is an adaptation of Keen's debut Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, also called It Is Rocket Science, which, when it previewed at the Buxton Fringe 2008 was nominated as Best Show and won the Best Individual Comedy Performer award.[4] The show then embarked on a tour of science and arts festivals throughout the UK and Ireland before being commissioned as a radio series.
A second series was broadcast in May and June 2012, and a third series in April 2014.
^ ab"Rewind radio: Stand Up for Comic Relief; So Wrong It's Right; It is Rocket Science – review". The Guardian. 13 March 2011. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023.
^comedy.co.uk
^It Is Rocket Science website
^"List of Buxton Festival Fringe finalists".
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