An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Friends: The Final Bow: His Last Tour On The Road

Writer and broadcaster Philip Ball will join scientist Richard Dawkins for the Cambridge date of his final ever tour. 

 

Coming to the Corn Exchange on Tuesday October 29, An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Friends will see the world-renowned evolutionary biologist and best-selling author in conversation with the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Science Stories and former editor of science journal Nature.

 

Philip Ball worked at Nature for 20 years, and has written books on the interactions of science, arts and culture including Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour, The Music Instinct and Critical Mass which won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. In 2022, he received the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy or social functions of science. 

 

Richard Dawkins’ new tour, which has been revealed to be his ‘final bow’ and a chance to ‘quit while ahead’, will see him share conversations on topics from science to religion, life on earth and beyond, as well as his latest book The Genetic Book of the Dead in which Dawkins delves into the transformative potential of DNA in our understanding of evolution.